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But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all — that, however, is the gold of the shopman.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all-that, however, is the gold of the shopman.

Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

But the moon still revolveth around all that is earthly: so revolveth also the prince around what is earthliest of all -- that, however, is the gold of the shopman.

Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Blessed are they who rise from the life of prayer into the spirit of praise, and learn that prayer is but the earthliest form of worship.

Sermons. Volume Third. 1808-1892 1847

We will not, then, malign our river as gross and impure, while it can glorify itself with so adequate a picture of the Heaven that broods above it; or, if we remember its tawny hue and the muddiness of its bed, let it be a symbol that the earthliest human soul has an infinite spiritual capacity, and may contain the better world within its depths.

Mosses from an Old Manse 1846

In a few more centuries he will be the earthliest creature that ever the earth saw.

Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

All these things were so perfectly imitated, that you seemed to have the genuine article before you, and yet with an indescribable, ideal charm; it took away the grossness from what was fleshiest and fattest, and thus helped the life of man, even in its earthliest relations, to appear rich and noble, as well as warm, cheerful, and substantial.

The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

But if the people, at the moment when the trial of darkness approaches, be not confirmed in moral character, but are only maintaining a superficial virtue by the aid of a spectral religion; the moment the staff of their faith is broken, the character of the race falls like a climbing plant cut from its hold: then all the earthliest vices attack it as it lies in the dust; every form of sensual and insane sin is developed, and half a century is sometimes enough to close, in hopeless shame, the career of the nation in literature, art, and war.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

But if the people, at the moment when the trial of darkness approaches, be not confirmed in moral character, but are only maintaining a superficial virtue by the aid of a spectral religion; the moment the staff of their faith is broken, the character of the race falls like a climbing plant cut from its hold: then all the earthliest vices attack it as it lies in the dust; every form of sensual and insane sin is developed; and half a century is sometimes enough to close in hopeless shame the career of the nation in literature, art, and war.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859