"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 |
