“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Book II, no. 2.
Emblems (1635)
“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
John Buchan book A Lodge in the Wilderness
Source: A Lodge in the Wilderness (1906), Ch. XI, pp. 313–4
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Italy", XXXII, line 21; p. 82.
“Worldly faces, never look so worldly as at a funeral.”
George Eliot book Scenes of Clerical Life
"Janet's Repentance" Ch. 25
Scenes of Clerical Life (1858)
Bahá'u'lláh (1817–1892) founder of the Bahá'í Faith
Lawh-i-Maqsúd http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/TB/tb-12.html (Tablet of Maqsúd)
Michael Andrew Screech (1926–2018)
Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73
Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster
Speaking in 1995 in an SABC interview about a change of philosophy following her libel case against Channel 4. http://70.84.171.10/~etools/newsbrief/1995/news0103 <br class="br">Other
“I make the other’s absence responsible for my worldliness.”
Roland Barthes book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Source: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a worldly way.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
June 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)