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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.267

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift (1768). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.426

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

'A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind' (1709)

We have no idea where the world is going, except that it's going there very fast.

Speech at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, 2009.

Dead we become the lumber of the world.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (2006). “The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.441