This world's a bubble.
Ascribed to Bacon by Thomas Fabnabt. (1629) Appeared in his Book of Epigrams; and by Joshua Sylvester—Panthea. Appendix. (1630) See also Wollonvmae. P. 513. Attributed to Bishop Usher. See Miscellanes. H. W. Gent. (1708)
Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of
worlds.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. The Centre.
Dieu est le poete, les hommes ne sont que Ies
acteurs. Ces grandes pieces qui se jouent sur la
terre ont 6t6 composees dans le ciel.
God is the author, men are only the players.
These grand pieces which are played upon
earth have been composed in heaven.
Balzac—Socrate Chrhien.
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Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;
Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty
moth,
And make use of your wings while you may.
But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled
you quite,
They at last found it dangerous play;
Many things in this world that look bright,
pretty moth,
Only dazzle to lead us astray.
Thos. Haynes Bayly—Fly away, pretty
Moth.
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| text = Let the world slide.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
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Money. Act V. Sc. 2. Taming of the Shrew.
Induction. Sc. 1. L. 5. Also Sc. 2. L. 146.
("Slip" in folio.)
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| text = <poem>The world is like a board with holes in it, and
the square men have got into the round holes,
and the round into the square.
Bishop Berkeley, as quoted by Punch.
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| text = <poem>Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain
pomp and glory of the world.
Booh of Common Prayer. Public Baptism of
The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
Book of Common Prayer. Catechism.
He sees that this great roundabout,
The world, with all its motley rout,
Church, army, physic, law,
Its customs and its businesses,
Is no concern at all of his,
And says—what says he?—Caw.
Vincent Bourne—The Jackdaw. Cowper'b
trans.
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’Tis a very good world we live in
To spend, and to lend, and to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;
'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.
J. Bromfteld. As given in The Mirror, under The Gatherer. Sept. 12, 1840. Quoted by
Irving in Tales of a Traveller. Prefixed to
Pt. II. Another similar version attributed
to Earl op Rochester,
This is the best world, that we live in,
To lend and to spend and to give in:
But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,
It is the worst world that ever was known.
From A Collection of Epigrams. (1737)
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| text = <poem>The severe schools shall never laugh me out
of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible
world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein
as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in
equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some
real substance in that invisible fabric.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici.
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| text = <poem>In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. V. L.
981.
world as God has made it! All is beauty.
Robert Browning—Guardian Angel. A
Picture at Fano.
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| text = The wide world is all before us—
But a world without a friend.
Burns—Straihallan's Lament.
have not loved the world, nor the world me:
I have not fiatter'd its rank breath, nor bowM
To its idolatries a patient knee.
Byron—CWHe Harold. Canto III. St. 113.
Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis,
And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails,
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes,
And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.
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| work = Don Juan. Canto H. St. 4.
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it,
love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it,
with thy eye on highest loadstars!
Carlyle—Essays. Count Caglioslro. Last
lines.
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds
the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure,
is he who lovingly sees into the world.
Cablyle—Essays. Death of Goethe.
Socrates, quidem, cum rogaretur cujatem se
esse diceret, "Mundanum," inquit; totalis enim
mundi se ineolam et civem arbitrabatur.
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what
country he called himself, said, "Of the world;"
for he considered himself an inhabitant and a
citizen of the whole world..
Cicero—Tusculanarum Disputationwm. Bk.
V. 37. 108.
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| text = <poem>Such stuff the world is made of.
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| work = Hope. L. 211.
