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World Quotes - Page 972

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary?

Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.545, Velvet Element Books

Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring.

Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.68

Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

Herman Melville (2012). “Moby Dick in Plain and Simple English (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, and Character Index)(”, p.561, BookCaps Study Guides

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

Collected in Charles H Kahn The Art and Thought of Heraclitus (1979).

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “The Plymouth pulpit. Sermons preached in Plymouth church, Brooklyn”, p.227

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

"In the harbor. Part II: Ultima Thule" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care.

1872 Tales of aWayside Inn, pt.2,'The Student's Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau'.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Sir Henry Taylor (1834). “Philip Van Artvelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts”, p.41