Mortals Quotes

310 quotes by 208 authors

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. — Joseph Addison
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. — Aeschylus
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. — Aeschylus
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here. — Jeff Cox
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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