Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course… — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Like countless first-year medical students, immersed in the symptoms of one disease after another, I am alert to the tingles and pangs,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“To attack is to believe you are mortal. Only mortals would believe anything has power over them.” — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually. — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Here Jove with Hermes came; but in disguise Of mortal men conceal'd their deities; One laid aside his thunder, one his rod — Ovid Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger… — Manmohan Acharya Copy Share Image
No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“To attack is to believe you are mortal. Only mortals would believe anything has power over them.” �— Earth Sentinels” — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera Copy Share Image
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a… — Spark Matsunaga Copy Share Image
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of… — Aesop Copy Share Image
Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
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