"World" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said, These two Lads are Figures: Passion, of the Men of this World; and Patience of the Men of that which is to come; for as here thou seest, Passion will have all now this year, that is to say, in this world; so are the men of this world: they must have all their good things now, they cannot stay till next year, that is, until the next world, for their ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan
... shoes must be very warm and comfortable," said he; "the leather is so soft and supple." They fitted his feet as though they had been made for him. "'Tis a curious world we live in," continued he, soliloquizing. "There is the lieutenant, now, who might go quietly to bed if he chose, where no doubt he could stretch himself at his ease; but does he do it? No; he saunters up and down his room, because, probably, ...
— Andersen's Fairy Tales • Hans Christian Andersen
... saplings passed slowly across the broad face of the moon as they walked along. How beautiful the world was! ...
— One Man's Initiation--1917 • John Dos Passos
... asked him whether it prevailed in his own family, and he told me that it did, more or less, as in all others. I bade him leave me, as I could not hold converse with a person guilty of such atrocities, and told him that they would be all punished for them in the next world, if not in this. ...
— A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman
... The fairies I believe in have always been welcome companions of mine, namely, the fairies of kindness, good thoughts and wishes and deeds; they drive out loneliness, if you let them live under your roof. Moreover, the world then seen is brighter because ...
— The Quest of Happy Hearts • Kathleen Hay
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