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Example sentences for "worldly things"

  • Covetousness, or an inordinate love of worldly things.

  • The wounds in his sacred hands, should teach us silence and contempt of worldly things.

  • But if thou art full of worldly things, thou canst not at the same time be full of heavenly things.

  • I had a certain interior light that showed me the inconstancy of worldly things, and I was inclined to abandon everything.

  • And if there were no more to declare that it doth not consist in worldly things, this might suffice—they are not communicable to many, without the prejudice and loss of every one.

  • Men of uncleansed souls, wedded to worldly things by various bonds, meet with destruction like embankments of sand in water.

  • Casting my eyes on every part of the three worlds, I do not behold the person who is equal to a poor man of pure conduct and without attachment (to worldly things).

  • Maya that chit-souls or jivas become attached to worldly things.

  • Nor want we here an argument to prove That who, inordinate is, in his love Of worldly things, doth better things defy, And slight salvation for the butterfly.

  • If worldly things 'be but as a dream, the thought is not far off that there may be an awakening to what is real.

  • For justice cannot be preserved, if either we settle our minds and affections upon worldly things; or be apt to be deceived, or rash, and inconstant.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accordingly went; anger against; believed that; chattels personal; clothing should; disposed persons; fine grasses; for two; free inquiry; heavy weather; high noon; journey through; not easy; organic matters; parliamentary republic; she continued; snow house; what goes; white granite; will consider; will love; worldly things; worldly wisdom