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O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

Ordericus Vitalis , em The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Volume 2
death history transitory fleeting memento-mori sacred-and-profane

Mrs. Bulstrode's naïve way of conciliating piety and worldliness, the nothingness of this life and desirability of cut glass, the consciousness at once of filthy rags and the best damask...

George Eliot , em Middlemarch
human-nature literature materialism worldliness sacred-and-profane in-the-world-but-not-of-it