A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The present is our own; but while we speak, We cease from its possession, and resign The stage we tread on, to… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment,… — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Copy Share Image
Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals. — Gertrude Bell Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: For still… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased… — R. C. Lehmann Copy Share Image
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Phony psychics like Uri Geller have had particular success in bamboozling scientists with ordinary stage magic, because only scientists are arrogant enough… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
