Mortals Quotes

310 quotes by 200 authors

'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God. — Spark Matsunaga
If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within… — Rose of Lima
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. — Phillips Brooks
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. — Aeschylus
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. — Thomas Carlyle
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious… — Jerome K. Jerome
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals. — George Washington
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. — Janet Morris
The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No… — Frederic Harrison
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals… — Charles Churchill
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? — Euripides
The Holy Ghost serves . . . as a revelator, revealing great, new, and important truths. God, with his infinite knowledge and power has developed… — Daniel H. Ludlow
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered… — Plutarch
Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly… — William Blake
Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But… — Neal A. Maxwell

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