Best Mortal Thoughts
783 Mortal quotes by 495 unique authors
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
— Seneca the Younger
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While [the] precious, vital message [of the Restoration] has been proclaimed across the world, Satan has been most effective in causing people to ignore it…
— Richard G. Scott
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No "natural" resource is more precious and to be used more wisely than time. These mortal moments matter more than we know. There are no…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its…
— Unknown Author
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In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had…
— Richard Matheson
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The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our…
— Leigh Hunt
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Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.
— Marsilio Ficino
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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the…
— Franz Rosenzweig
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With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.
— Royal Robbins
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am…
— King James I
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To be saved is here, local and mortal
— A. R. Ammons
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Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.
— Bruce R. McConkie
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May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May…
— L. Tom Perry
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This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was…
— ElRay L. Christiansen
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And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
— Thomas Keneally
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Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves.…
— Mark Doty
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Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.
— Unknown Author
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
— Konrad Lorenz
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I have heard of that idea. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal and…
— Haile Selassie
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
— Sallust
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So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd…
— Moby
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Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal…
— Garet Garrett
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