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title: "3 Ordinary Mortal Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-scott/fortune-may-raise-up-or-abuse-the-ordinary-mortal-but-the-sage-and/)

[Walter Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-scott/)

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> [“I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-berry/i-am-so-often-moved-by-souls-whose-first-concern-is-not-for-their-own/)

[Julie Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-berry/)

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> [I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-don-t-think-there-is-any-such-thing-as-an-ordinary-mortal-everybody/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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