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I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind.

William Shakespeare
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Book of Common Prayer
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People can lose their worldly goods. They can lose their house. They can lose their car. They find their cat, their dog, their guinea pig or their rabbit and they feel like they have hope.

Mark Goldstein
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Nancy Scott was worldly, funny and gritty in her approach to her work, ... She had a fine sense of outrage that gave her writing and her personality great vibrancy.

Phil Bronstein
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This man has been humiliated beyond belief by his own hand. He is estranged from those he loves most and cares most about. All his worldly possessions are gone. He will carry a crushing tax debt until the day he dies. He will go to jail until he's 70 years old.

Lee Blalack
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We should worship lord Shiva so that we are freed from our worldly attachments just like a fruit falls from a tree after ripening. Once we are successful in doing this we are liberated from this vicious cycles of life and death.

Yajur Veda
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Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.

Carol Adams
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Marcus Valerius Martialis
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Champion mares like Worldly Beauty and Bunny Lake are being sent here to be bred to him. He's getting a tremendous response.

Robert Marks
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When he started as CEO I thought Kellogg was a very insular, not-very-worldly-wise type of company, ... It's now about as international and as sophisticated as they get.

Timothy Ramey
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Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend, turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phrase of selfish, worldly society religion? Is that religion which is scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

Larry Harvey
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

Bruno Bauer
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I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

Cyndi Lauper
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Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Van Wyck Brooks
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Rabbi Nachman
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'

Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

William Law
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Welles was an astute and worldly man about everything but his art. He couldn't afford to be otherwise.

Peter Bogdanovich
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I have a domestic side. I like the idea of having a family and settling down some day. But Joanne is limited and hasn't really lived. She's not worldly. And it comes through in her character.

Rachel Smith
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