"The world is not respectable; it is mortal,……" — George Santayana

More Amid Quotes

This quote is filed under Amid Quotes, one of 292 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
• My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. — Buffalo Bill
• I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle… — Robert Burns
• It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from… — R. H. Tawney
• Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder
• It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.… — Pema Chodron
• How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. — Benjamin Disraeli
• My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes… — Epicurus
• Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. — Mason Cooley
• Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons
• From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius

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