To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
We admire the world through what we love.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.
It is spirit that rules the world, not intelligence.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The world is generally so restless, that men scarcely ever think of the present time, and the instant they are now actually living, but of those in which they are to live. So that we are always in a disposition to live in future, but never to live now.
In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
In this world we must be a little too good to be good enough.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.
The heart is the key of the world and of life.
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
All the world's a stage.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The world and life are one.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Like the disputes of lovers are the dissonances of the world. Reconciliation is there, even in the midst of strife, and all that is parted finds itself united again.
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