WORLD WORLD PEACE
The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. Thackeray—Vanity Fair. </poem>
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Even the linked fantasies, in whose blossomy
twist
I swung the earth a trinket at my wrist.
Francis Thompson—Hound of Heaven. L.
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Anchorite, who didst dwell
With all the world for cell!
Francis Thompson—To the Dead Cardinal of
Westminster. St. S.
i For, if the worlds
In worlds enclosed should on his senses
burst * * *
He would abhorrent turn.
Thomson—Seasons. Summer. L. 313.
Heed not the folk who sing or say
In sonnet sad or sermon chill,
"Alas, alack, and well-a-day!
This round world's but a bitter pill."
We too are sad and careful; still
We'd rather be alive than not.
Graham R. Tomson—Ballade of the Optimist.
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Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des
mondes.
Everything is for the best in this best of
possible worlds.
Voltaire—Candide. I. (A hit against Leibnitz' Optimistic Doctrines.}})
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| text = <poem>Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Waller—Divine Poems. Works. P. 316.
(Ed. 1729)
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| text = <poem>The world is a comedy to those who think, a
tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole—Letter to Sir Horace Mann.
(1770)
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| text = <poem>If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and
intelligence in men to produce presently, from
the tremendous lessons of history, an effective
will for a world peace—that is to say, an effective
will for a world law under a world government—
for in no other fashion is a secure world peace
conceivable—in what manner may we expect
things to move towards this end? . . . It is
an educational task, and its very essence is to
bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a
necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation,
of history.
H. G. Wells—Outline of History. Ch. XLI.
Par. 2.
What is this world? A net to snare the soule.
George Whetstone. In Tottle's Miscellany. Erroneously attributed to Gascoigne.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Walt Whitman—Starting from Pawmano.
No. 52.
Was ist ihm nun die Welt? ein weiter leerer Raum,
Fortunen's Spielraum, f rei ihr Rad herum zu rollen.
What is the world to him now? a vast and
vacant space, for fortune's wheel to roll about
at will.
Wieland—Oberon. VIII. 20.
I have my beauty,—you your Art—
Nay, do not start:
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.
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When the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.
Wordsworth—Lines composed a few miles
above Tintern Abbey.
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| text = The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Wordsworth—Miscellaneous Sonnets. Pt. I.
XXXIII.
The world's a bubble—and the life of man
Less than a span.
In his conception wretched, and from the womb
So to the tomb.
Nurst from the cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns in water, and but writes in dust.
Wotton—The World. Ode to Bacon.
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| text = <poem>Man of the World (for such wouldst thou be
called)—
And art thou proud of that inglorious style?
Young—Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 8.
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| text = <poem>Let not the cooings of the world allure thee:
Which of her lovers ever found her true?
Young—Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L.
1,279.
WORLD PEACE
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.
