Famous quotes containing the word earthly:
“The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions—the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)
“She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“I have done no harm. But I remember now
I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
Is often laudable, to good sometimes
Accounted dangerous folly.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)