Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.
He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.And as Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab's soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours-watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he had a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.
Seldom have I known any profound being that had anything to say to this world, unless forced to stammer out something by way of getting a living. Oh! happy that the world is such an excellent listener!
What could be more full of meaning?-for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest come in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
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