earthly (adj.)
- base
- bodily
- carnal
- conceivable
- corporal
- corporeal
- earth
- earthbound
- earthy
- feasible
- fleshly
- human
- imaginable
- likely
- material
- materialistic
- mortal
- mundane
- natural
- physical
- possible
- potential
- profane
- secular
- sensual
- somatic
- sublunar
- substantial
- tellurian
- telluric
- temporal
- terrene
- terrestrial
- worldly
The sum of earthly bliss.
A peace above all earthly dignities,
A still and quiet conscience.
Small have continual plodders ever won
Save base authority from others' books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
That give a name to every fixed star
Have no more profit of their shining nights
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,
Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,
As false and fleeting as 't is fair.
This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.
In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her,
Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!
An angel! or, if not,
An earthly paragon!
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown;
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptred sway,
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
