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 WORLD WORLD

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am a citizen of the world. Diogenes Laerti0s. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Ciceho) The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. Benj. Disraeli—Endymion. Ch. LXX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. III. L. 2,159. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Howell) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 5 | text = The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love and providence, Do act the parts. Dtr Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes. First Week. First Day. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I take the world to be but as a stage, Where net-maskt men doo play their personage. Dtr Bartas—Divine Weekes and Workes. Dialogue Between Heraclitus and Democritus. The world is a stage; each plays his part, and receives his portion. Found in Winschooten's Seeman. (1681) Bohn's Collection, 1857. Juvenal—Satires. III. 100. (Natio comceda est.) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Balzac, Edwards, Heywood, Middleton, Montaigne, Petrontus, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, Tagore}}, also {{sc|Palladas}} under {{sc|Life}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = But they will maintain, the state of the world; And all their desire is in the work of their craft. Ecclesiasticus. XXXVIII. 34. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Pythagoras said that this world was like a stage, Whereon many play their parts; the lookers-on the sage Philosophers are, saith he, whose part is to learn The manners of all nations, and the good from the bad to discern. Richard Edwards—Damon and Pythias. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Du Bartas}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend; I am not thine. Emerson—Good-bye, Proud World! ("And I," in later Ed.}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Shall I speak truly what I now see below? The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just Nothing. Owen Pelltham—Resolves. P. 316. (Ed. 1696) From the Latin said to have been left by Lipsius to be put on his grave. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Young}} under {{sc|Visions}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Map me no maps, sir; my head is a map, a map of the whole world. Fielding—Rape upon Rape. Act I. Sc. 5. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Long ago a man of the world was defined as a man who in every serious crisis is invariably wrong. Fortnightly Review. Armageddon—and After. Nov., 1914. P. 736. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Young}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots. But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. Franklin—Letter to M. Leroy. (1789) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Eppur si muove. (Epur.) But it does move. Galileo—Before the Inquisition. (1632) Questioned by Karl von Geble; also by Prop. Heis, who says it appeared first in the Dictionnaire Historique. Caen. (1789) Guisar says it was printed in the Lehrbuch der Oeschichte. Wurtzburg. (1774) Conceded to be apocryphal. Earliest appearance in Abbe Irailh—Querelle's Litteraires. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = mondo 6 un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere. The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Goldoni—Pamela. I. 14. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Notes}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade— A breath can make them, as a breath has made— But a bold peasantry, their country's pride. When once destroy'd can never be supplied. | author = Goldsmith | work = Deserted Village. L. 51. | seealso = (See also {{sc|De Caux}}) | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine! | author = Goldsmith | work = Traveller. L. 50. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God. Hageman—Silence. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 913 }}