The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
We pass through this world but once.
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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