This World Quotes - Page 18

• I am powerful and I am loving.
  I have much to give to this world.
  I am a person of worth.
  I deserve love.
  I am a capable person.
  My life has meaning.
  My life is unfolding perfectly.
  There is plenty of time.

  Susan Jeffers

  Powerful, Deserve Love, Giving

  Susan Jeffers (1993). “Dare to Connect: Reaching Out in Romance, Friendship, and the Workplace”, Ballantine Books

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• There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

  Paul the Apostle

  Voice, Tongue, Example

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• Alack, this world
  Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Change, World

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Immutable”

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• No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me--has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public office thereby. The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them uncomfortable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Running, Mistake

  Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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• The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophical, Boys, Men

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• Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the delusion of masculine superiority. Their one comfort is the assurance that, even though it may be impossible to prevail against man, it is always possible to enslave and torture a man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Hard Times, Law

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.40, Vintage

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• Whatever lives, lives to die in sorrow. We engage our hearts, and grasp after the things of this world, only to undergo the pang of losing them.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Live Life, Heart, Sorrow

  Friedrich Schiller, Henry George Bohn (1849). “Works”, p.80

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• Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spy, Done, World

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• Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.

  Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

  Real, Character, Giving

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• Self-worth comes from who we are in Christ, not what we accomplish in this world.

  Pete Wilson

  Self Worth, World, Who We Are

  Pete Wilson (2012). “Empty Promises: The Truth About You, Your Desires, and the Lies You're Believing”, p.42, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

  William Ralph Inge

  Giving Up, Men, World

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• Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Philosophy, Reflection, Thoughtful

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.333, Oxford University Press

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• This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

  J. G. Holland

  Sleep, Islands, Discovery

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• When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Equality, World, Earth

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• Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.

  Josh Billings

  World, Quacks, Humbug

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• There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

  Josh Billings

  Thinking, Vanity, World

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.221

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• Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

  Josh Billings

  World, Want

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• The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

  Josh Billings

  World, Philosopher, Mystery

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• We are all of us, in this world, more or less like St. January, whom the inhabitants of Naples worship one day, and pelt with baked apples the next.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Apples, One Day, World

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• How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Names, Looks, Debt

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• You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it.

  Warren Buffett

  Smart, Would Be, Needs

  "Warren Buffett’s big life lesson to students: Don’t borrow money like Donald Trump" by Tae Kim, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2018.

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• You can't be genuinely prosperous unless you have personal freedom. You will have attained true personal freedom in this world when you can get up in the morning when you want to get up; go to sleep when you want to go to sleep; and in the interval, work and play at the things you want to work and play at - all at your own pace.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Morning, Sleep, Play

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• In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Latin, Mean, People

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• Your prosperity and happiness will ultimately be determined by the enrichment you create for others in this world. If whatever you are doing does not enrich your life, or that of others, then it's time to do something else.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Doe, World, Determined

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• The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  World, Infinite, Plans

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