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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

Gerald Massey

Other Worlds, Might, This World

Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2

This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro.

Geoffrey Chaucer

World, This World

1387 Canterbury Tales,'The Knight's Tale', l. 2847-8.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Ellen Page

World, Nicknames, This World

"Interview: Ellen Page Talks Whip It". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. October 1, 2009.

Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

C. S. Lewis

World, This World, Knows

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

Kindness, World, This World

In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne, I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were, In habite an heremite unholy of werkes, Went wide in this world wondres to here.

William Langland

Sheep, World, This World

c.1377 Piers Plowman (B text), prologue, l.1-4. (shoop = got, shroudes = garments)

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

William Gaddis

World, Memento, This World

William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.

Steven Morrissey

World, This World, Bores

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Philip Yancey

World, This World

Philip Yancey (2003). “Rumors of Another World: What on Earth are We Missing?”, p.175, Harper Collins

How I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy.

Meghan McCain

Enemy, World, This World

Source: collider.com

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.

Henry Ford

Teacher, World, This World

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert

Soul, World, This World

Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1982). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1857-1880”, p.205, Harvard University Press

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Craig Silvey

People, World, This World

Craig Silvey (2010). “Jasper Jones”, p.246, Random House

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

Radclyffe Hall

World, Normal, This World

Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Liza Minnelli

Believe, World, This World

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Horizon, World, This World