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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que Ies acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la terre ont 6t6 composees dans le ciel. God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. Balzac—Socrate Chrhien. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Du Bartas) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 1 | text = Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth, And make use of your wings while you may. But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite, They at last found it dangerous play; Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray. Thos. Haynes Bayly—Fly away, pretty Moth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = Let the world slide. | author = Beaumont and Fletcher | work = Wit Without Money. Act V. Sc. 2. Taming of the Shrew. Induction. Sc. 1. L. 5. Also Sc. 2. L. 146. ("Slip" in folio.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Heywood}}) | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square. Bishop Berkeley, as quoted by Punch. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Smith}}) | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. Booh of Common Prayer. Public Baptism of The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. Book of Common Prayer. Catechism. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He sees that this great roundabout, The world, with all its motley rout, Church, army, physic, law, Its customs and its businesses, Is no concern at all of his, And says—what says he?—Caw. Vincent Bourne—The Jackdaw. Cowper'b trans. _ ’Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in; But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own; 'Tis the very worst world that ever was known. J. Bromfteld. As given in The Mirror, under The Gatherer. Sept. 12, 1840. Quoted by Irving in Tales of a Traveller. Prefixed to Pt. II. Another similar version attributed to Earl op Rochester, | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in: But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own, It is the worst world that ever was known. From A Collection of Epigrams. (1737) | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric. Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. | seealso = (See also {{sc|James}}) | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost. E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. V. L. 981. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = world as God has made it! All is beauty. Robert Browning—Guardian Angel. A Picture at Fano. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = The wide world is all before us— But a world without a friend. Burns—Straihallan's Lament. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = have not loved the world, nor the world me: I have not fiatter'd its rank breath, nor bowM To its idolatries a patient knee. Byron—CWHe Harold. Canto III. St. 113. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails. | author = Byron | work = Don Juan. Canto H. St. 4. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars! Carlyle—Essays. Count Caglioslro. Last lines. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world. Cablyle—Essays. Death of Goethe. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Socrates, quidem, cum rogaretur cujatem se esse diceret, "Mundanum," inquit; totalis enim mundi se ineolam et civem arbitrabatur. Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.. Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationwm. Bk. V. 37. 108. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Diogenes, Seneca}}) | topic = | page = 912 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Such stuff the world is made of. | author = Cowper | work = Hope. L. 211. | place = | topic = | page = 912 }}