Best Mortal Wisdom
783 Mortal quotes by 495 unique authors
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I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how…
— Robert Newton Peck
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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct…
— John Woolman
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Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?
— Zebulon Pike
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I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only…
— Sam Savage
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Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
— Susan Orlean
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Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.
— William Shakespeare
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There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord…
— Lorenzo Snow
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The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.
— Boyd K. Packer
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Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days? Rather I say we are glad that we…
— Unknown Author
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
— Nicholas Grimald
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Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead…
— Hal Turner
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Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.
— Keith B. McMullin
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The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so…
— Elizabeth Fry
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What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this…
— Saint Basil
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The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand…
— Scott Cunningham
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The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
— Aldous Huxley
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is…
— Adam Weishaupt
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