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Mortals Quotes by George Eliot
- 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…
- Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
- And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are…
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
More Mortals Quotes
- 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;… — Aeschylus
- The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Samuel Chadwick
- Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God.… — 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