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GO further and fare worse
1546Dialogue of Proverbs
II. iv. G3
V
You rose on your right syde here ryght. And might haue gon further, and haue faren wurs.
1738
Polite Conversation
II. 58
Come, Sir
John
you may go further, and fare worse.
1848
Vanity Fair
iv.
She's just as rich as most of the girls who came out of India. I might go farther and fare worse.
1938
in
Spectator
12 Aug. 271
He would have said, perhaps, with his plainness and simplicity and the smirk of satisfaction you see on his portrait, that one can fare further and fare worse.
content and discontent
go
see also
EASY come, easy go
;
LIGHT come, light go
;
QUICKLY come, quickly go
;
he that would go to SEA for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime
;
never let the SUN go down on your anger
;
don't go near the WATER until you learn how to swim
;
the WEAKEST go to the wall
;
many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
; also
GOES
.
EASY come, easy go
;
LIGHT come, light go
;
QUICKLY come, quickly go
;
he that would go to SEA for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime
;
never let the SUN go down on your anger
;
don't go near the WATER until you learn how to swim
;
the WEAKEST go to the wall
;
many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
; also
GOES
.
You cannot serve GOD and Mammon
Quoting MATTHEW vi. 24 (AV) Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Mammon
is the Aramaic word for ‘riches’, taken by medieval writers as the proper name of the devil of covetousness. Now used generally of wealth regarded as an evil influence.
1531
Pilgrimage of Perfection
(rev. ed.) III. vii.
No person may serue god eternall and also the Mammonde of iniquite: whiche is golde and syluer and other richesse.
1860
Framley Parsonage
II. i.
Lady Lufton .. would say of Miss Dunstable that it was impossible to serve both God and Mammon.
1982
Goosefoot
v.
The city and the country repel each other like oil and water. And like God and Mammon, they can't be served at the same time by the same person.
money
Mammon
is the Aramaic word for ‘riches’, taken by medieval writers as the proper name of the devil of covetousness. Now used generally of wealth regarded as an evil influence.
1531Pilgrimage of Perfection
(rev. ed.) III. vii.
No person may serue god eternall and also the Mammonde of iniquite: whiche is golde and syluer and other richesse.
1860
Framley Parsonage
II. i.
Lady Lufton .. would say of Miss Dunstable that it was impossible to serve both God and Mammon.
1982
Goosefoot
v.
The city and the country repel each other like oil and water. And like God and Mammon, they can't be served at the same time by the same person.
moneyWhere GOD builds a church, the Devil will build a chapel
1560Works
I. 516
V
For commonly, where so ever God buildeth a church, the Deuyll wyl builde a Chappell iuste by.
1701
True-born Englishman
4
Wherever God erects a House of Prayer, The Devil always builds a Chapel there: And 'twill be found upon Examination, The latter has the largest Congregation.
1903
Master's Questions
xiii.
Nowhere does the devil build his little chapels more cunningly than close under the shadow of the great temple of Christian liberty. A thing in itself completely right and good, may be, in its effects on others, completely evil.
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