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Letter "W" » World
«Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.»
«God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.»
Author: Isak Dinesen
(Writer)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
come round, round, rounder, rounding, round up, The World is Round
«Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Justice,
Learning,
Support,
World
| Keywords:
four things, prayers, valor
«Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.»
Author: Pedro Calderon de la Barca
| About:
Colors,
World
| Keywords:
arises, its color, loveliness, prime
«Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.»
Author: Robert E. Lee
| About:
Life,
World
| Keywords:
correct, do good, enable, pleasantly, regret, summoned, summoning, views, world view
«Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them»
Author: Walter Kerr
| About:
World
| Keywords:
advantage, clever, composed, idiots, indecent, The Other Half
«Great wide, beautiful, wonderful world, With the wonderful waters round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest»
«Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Happiness,
World
| Keywords:
attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase
«Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
People,
World
| Keywords:
composed, keep on, Nothing to say, The Other Half
«For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding,
World
| Keywords:
expanded, hitherto, narrowed, take in
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