John Davidson: Quotes about the world

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“Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies:
Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more
In every branch becomes the sale of money.”

John Davidson

Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 26

Money , World , Business

“One must become
Fanatic – be a wedge – a thunder-bolt
To smite a passage through the close-grained world.”

John Davidson

Smith (Glasgow: Wilson, 1888) p. 33

World

“Mere by-blows are the world and we,
And time within eternity
A sheer anachronism.”

John Davidson

"Queen Elizabeth's Day", from Fleet Street Eclogues (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., [1893] 1895) p. 198

World , Time