The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell in The Silver Stallion (1926)
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
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A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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All are optimists and pessimists
Solely optimists or solely pessimists
Are absent. An optimist in winter
And a pessimist in autumn one turns.
Optimists are youths and pessimist, the old.
01.10.2010.
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Two Different Worlds
I know this girl, shes always on my mind
She lives in her world and I live in mine
I should forget about her and Ive tried
Lord knows Ive tried
But I want to know her, and heres the other side
Ive got someone waiting for me every night
Shes the only one Ive ever loved
And its been that way for the longest time
Shes the one that makes my world go right
And it tears me in two because I know where Ill be tonight
I think she knows it
I think she knows
Two different worlds, two different worlds
One that belongs to me, one could be wrong for me
Two different worlds, two different worlds
Oh, two different worlds
Is she that different or is it the thrill of someone new
Strung out on her, I need her love
I need it bad, and I know, I know its true
Im the one that lies awake alone
I know, shes the one that makes me stray from home
And I know it
Yeah, I know it
Two different worlds, two different worlds
One that I may regret, one that I cant forget
Two different worlds, two different worlds
Oh, always two different worlds
No, I cant explain this emptiness
No, I know I cant go on like this
Two different worlds, two different worlds
Two different worlds
I live in two different worlds
One that I may regret, one that I wont forget
Two different worlds
But I cant live in both, I know
One world I must let go
song performed by by Foreigner
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I Live In Other Worlds
I LIVE IN OTHER WORLDS
I live in other worlds-
Far from those most people live in
I am happy in my worlds-mostly
They do not bite or sting-
I live in other worlds
There are inward worlds
Quiet worlds
They have poems and music and stories in them-
I listen to them
And I make and remake them
as my own little worlds
Word- worlds mostly-
Like this one.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
quote by Mark Twain
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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
quote by Max Lerner
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
quote by Mark Twain
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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
quote by Jean de La Fontaine
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I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
quote by Janis Joplin
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