"For all the world" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oxen to the plough, This done, Ambition questioned, 'Whither now? We'll leave these gems for all the world to see! New sports and pleasures wait for thee ...
— Yesterdays • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... ten huts and a cask of biscuit. If they make their thousand pounds into two thousand by writing new notes, their two thousand pounds are still worth ten huts and a cask of biscuit. And the law of relative value is the same for all the world, and all the people in it, and all their property, as for ten men on a rock. Therefore, money is truly and finally lost in the degree in which its value is taken from it (ceasing in that degree to be money at all); and it is truly gained ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin
... vines, hiding the cruel rocks and rusted bars with leaf and flower. He could not echo with his heart the fiendish sentence of eternal fire. In spite of book and creed, he read "between the lines" the words of tenderness and love, with promises for all the world. Above, beyond the dogmas of his church—humane even to the verge of heresy—causing some to doubt his love of God because he failed to hate his unbelieving fellow-men, he labored for the welfare of mankind, and to his work gave up his life ...
— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll
... to come up again, paddling for all the world like a puppy that was having its first swim. His face had taken on a look ...
— The Saddle Boys of the Rockies - Lost on Thunder Mountain • James Carson
... summer where the snow remains all the year through and his white coat is a protection from the keenest eyes. You see, when not moving, he looks in the distance for all the world like a patch of ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess
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