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William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Character | Man | Reflection | World |

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Jonathan Swift, pen names, M.B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Character | Diet | Quiet | World |

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Robert Southey

Man hath a weary pilgrimage, as through the world he wends; on every stage, from youth to age, still discontent attends.

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We may be pretty certain that persons whom all the treats ill deserve the treatment they get. The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

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William Graham Sumner

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poorhouse.

Character | Debt | Men | World |

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John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparable to this.

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Diana Vreeland, born Diana Dalziel

Your world... you have created it for yourself, it is real to yourself, and therefore real to us... It is for you to discover yourself in a world where, alone and free, you may dream the possible dream: that the wondrous is real, because that is how you feel it to be, how you wish it to be... and how you wish it into being.

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Isaac Abravanel, fully Don Itshak ben Yehouda Abravanel

The reward of the souls in the world beyond is their ability to attain the true concept of God which is a source of the most wonderful felicity, an attainment impossible for man in this early life because of the disturbances on the part of matter.

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James R. Adams

Man is a creature of impulse, emotion, action rather than reason. Reason is a very late development in the world of living creatures, most of whom, as far as we know, get along admirably in daily life without it.

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Hans Christian Anderson

To be of use in the world is the only way to be happy.

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Richard Whately

Those who get through the world without enemies are commonly three classes: the supple, the adroit, the phlegmatic. The leaden rule surmounts obstacles by yielding to them; the oiled wheel escapes friction; the cotton sack escapes damage by its impenetrable elasticity.

Character | Rule | World | Yielding |

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William Jewett Tucker

Be not content with the commonplace in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

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W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden

To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

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Avraham Yellin

Keep in mind that we are in this world for a very short time and the things that upset us are of minor importance in the entire scheme of the universe.

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