"Worldly-minded" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the more worldly-minded ones will perhaps stroll over to a neighbor's barnyard, and take a look at his young stock, and talk of prices, and whittle a little; and very likely some two of them will make a conditional "swop" of "three likely ye'rlings" for a ...
— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell
... with worldly-minded men; never seek their society; speak little with them, and never without need; and then not ...
— The Communistic Societies of the United States • Charles Nordhoff
... survives the shock I will face the world, and, amid poverty, and the slights of my former companions, I will toil—yes, I will work at anything that I can do in honesty." And with this high resolve Marguerite set forth to break the sad news to her worldly-minded mother. ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... to an intimate friend, "Worldly-minded I am not; on the contrary, my wish to benefit those within my humble sphere strengthens seemingly in exact proportion to my inability to realize those wishes. What I lament most is that the spirituality of my nature does not expand and rise the nearer I approach the grave, ...
— Wordsworth • F. W. H. Myers
... of Bishop Watson's character simply from such samples as these, we might conclude that he was a covetous, unreasonably discontented, and worldly-minded man. But this would be a very unfair conclusion to arrive at. The Bishop gives us only one, and that the weakest side of his character. He was most highly esteemed by some of his contemporaries, whose good opinion ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
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