Best Mortal Quotes
783 Mortal quotes by 495 unique authors
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
— Lucretius
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
— Walter Lippmann
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A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important…
— Robert D. Hales
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Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy…
— Orson Scott Card
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If you are unconscious, unaware, you are living only in the body, the mortal. And a person who lives for the body, in the body,…
— Rajneesh
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
— Samuel Johnson
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:…
— William Wordsworth
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It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.
— Robert Breault
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds…
— John Owen
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?…
— Henri Poincare
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine…
— William James
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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own image so that…
— Johannes Kepler
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It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.
— Bruce R. McConkie
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And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to.
— William Shakespeare
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Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
— Anthony Mary Claret
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek…
— George Sand
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
— Unknown Author
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This I say, because God showed me somewhat of his truth, in order that I might know what man is without him; that is, when…
— Catherine of Genoa
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