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World Quotes - Page 447

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.433

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.261, Cambridge University Press

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.121, Univ of California Press

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

Thomas Carlyle (2016). “The French Revolution: The Historian”, p.294, 北戴河出版

A thought will color a world for us.

Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wyrd Sisters: (Discworld Novel 6)”, p.182, Random House

Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

"Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 114), 1992.