“The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) Canadian general
Tag line, cover illustration of Vokes - My Story
“Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows
That for oblivion take their daily birth
From all the fuming vanities of earth.”
Sky-Prospect from the Plain of France.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Context: The formal character of a living literature is the same as its inner character: it denies verities; it denies what everyone knows and what I have known until this moment. It departs from the canonical tracks, from the broad highway. … To literature today the plane surface of daily life is what the earth is to an airplane — a mere runway from which to take off, in order to rise aloft, from daily life to the realities of being, to philosophy, to the fantastic. Let yesterday's cart creak along the well-paved highways. The living have strength enough to cut away their yesterday.
“Meek — as the meek that shall inherit earth,
Pure — as the pure in heart that shall see God.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet
Poems (1866), Our Father's Business
Context: This, this is Thou. No idle painter's dream
Of aureoled, imaginary Christ,
Laden with attributes that make not God;
But Jesus, son of Mary; lowly, wise,
Obedient, subject unto parents, mild,
Meek — as the meek that shall inherit earth,
Pure — as the pure in heart that shall see God.
“All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(1836-2) (Vol.47) Subjects for Pictures. II. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
The Monthly Magazine
“But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.”
James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence
Canto I, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.”
J. Paul Getty (1892–1977) American industrialist
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Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
"When I'm 64" Salon.com (8 August 2006) http://www.salon.com/2006/08/09/keillor_52/
“And so on earth
our destiny is with us from our birth.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Cosí nel mondo
sua ventura à ciascun dal dí che nasce.
Canzone 303, st. 4 (tr. Mark Musa)
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
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