Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

This world belongs to the energetic. Emerson.

This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle. Burns.

This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven. Moore.

This world is full of fools, and he who would 20 not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. Boileau.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me! (uncle Toby to the fly). Sterne.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Johnson.

Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more. Dut. Pr.

Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them. Tennyson.

Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll / 25 Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul? Tennyson.

Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness. Lear, i. 1.