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As long as the world is the world, and there is in it sin, decay, disease, and death, we cannot hope to make the work or the conditions of work absolutely ideal: we can make ideal the spirit in which work is done A fine story is told that long ago, when the cholera once broke out in Philadelphia, the hospitals fell into a fearful state.

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  1. noun The earth.
  2. noun The universe.
  3. noun The earth with its inhabitants.
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  • The natural man looks to this world, the world is his god; faith, love, hope, joy, are not excited in his mind by things spiritual and divine, but by things seen and temporal Considering, then, that love of praise is not a bad principle in itself, it is plain that a parent may very properly teach his child to love his praise, and fear his blame, when that praise and blame are given in accordance with God's praise and blame, and made subservient to them. —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)
  • "This world is a pretty good old world, and no matter what happens, there is always something left for every one to be thankful about. —  Heart of Gold
  • Therefore, the greatest thing for the world was the domination of the Pope. —  The Eternal City
  • The rewards of the other world are the perfections and the peace obtained in the spiritual worlds after leaving this world; whilst the rewards of this life are the real luminous perfections which are realized in this world, and which are the cause of eternal life, for they are the very progress of existence. —  Bahá’í World Faith
  • Proposition 11 That as their world is our Moone, so our world is their Moone. —  The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
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  1. Middle English, from Old English weorold; see wī-ro- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English world, worlde, wurld, werld, weorld, worlt, woreld, wereld, weoreld, weoruld, also word, werd, werde, etc., from Anglo-Saxon world, worold, woruld, weorold, weoruld = Old Saxon werold = Dutch wereld = Middle Low German weerld, werld = Old High German weralt, Middle High German werelt, werlt, welt, German welt = Icelandic veröld = Swedish verld = Danish verden (for *verlden) (Gothic (Moesogothic) not recorded), the world, the generation of men; an orig. compound, whose elements, later merged in one and lost from view (the word, owing to the unusual conjunction of consonants, having undergone different contractions, represented by the Middle English word, etc., and the G. welt), are represented by Anglo-Saxon wer (= Gothic (Moesogothic) wair), man, + yldo, age (from eald, old): see wer and eld, old. The word has taken on extended applications; the sense of ‘the earth’ is not found in Anglo-Saxon
 

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