My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is. — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Mortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing and mortal eye… — William Blake Copy Share Image
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below. Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
... even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
