Mortals Quotes
310 quotes by 208 authors
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
— Joseph Addison
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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
— Aeschylus
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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a…
— Aeschylus
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
— Phillips Brooks
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.
— Samuel Chadwick
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Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.
— Jeff Cox
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
— Horace
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Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
— Charles Dickens
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing…
— Washington Irving
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still…
— Euripides
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,…
— Aristophanes
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
— Homer
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