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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. -- Hesiod
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. -- Voltaire
Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. -- Bodhidharma
Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you. -- Kami Garcia
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. -- Melissa Marr
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals -- Lev Grossman
I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere! -- Lee De Forest
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. -- Trudi Canavan
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. -- George Eliot
Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing. -- George Meredith
Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly. -- Christopher Pike
Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures. -- Kami Garcia
Mortals, while through the world you go, Hope may succor and faith befriend, Yet happy your hearts if you can but know, Love awaits at the journey's end! -- Clinton Scollard
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived. -- L. Frank Baum
Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice. -- Charles Wesley
Mortals were such fickle creatures. They called into the dark, demanded answers and attention from forces they could not comprehend, and yet when they had that attention and those answers, they complained about them. -- Philippa Ballantine
Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than they sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. -- John Milton
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted. -- Neil Gaiman
Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. -- John Milton
Mortals cannot perceive me with the physical eye whilst in my pure form unless it is of my choosing, for it would result in fatality, which leaves the question as to why you are an exception." -- Alecia Stone
Mortals live but their souls are little more than raw energy coursing through flesh. When they die that energy is broken down and returned to the cosmos. There is no heaven, and no hell. Only delusion. -- Plague Jack
On Earth, Discord! A gloomy Heaven above, opening her jealous gates to the nineteen thousandth part of the tithe of mankind! And below, an inescapable & inexorable Hell, expanding its leviathan jaws for the vast residue of Mortals! -- Robert Burns
Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't -- Jackson Pearce
Mortals are known by their actions; this is the way it has to be. They should show goodness, and not be deformed by their actions; this is how they are called beautiful. Whatever they desire, they shall receive; O Nanak, they become the very image of God. -- Guru Angad
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. -- Euripides
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. -- Aeschylus
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. -- Horace
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! -- Leonardo da Vinci
Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. -- Joseph Addison
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die. -- Sophocles
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. -- Xenophanes
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. -- Heraclitus
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. -- Mike Tyson
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. -- W. H. Auden
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. -- Gordon W. Allport
People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability. -- Daniel Kahneman
Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. -- Robert Schumann
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. -- Sophocles
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant? -- Marguerite Gardiner
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. -- Lucretius
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 divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair. -- Aeschylus
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. -- Thomas Mann
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that. -- Rick Perlstein
I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. -- Buddha
I think that not only do saints make poor role models, they are incapable in one sense of identifying radically with those of us who are mere mortals. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mortality says to us that here's a figure who got up every day of his life facing tremendous odds and yet overcame them. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Stupid, fragile mortals. -- Carrie Vaughn
Composing mortals with immortal fire. -- W. H. Auden
Oh what fools we mortals are. -- William Shakespeare
Lord, what fools these mortals be! -- William Shakespeare
There is nothing assured to mortals. -- Horace
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals. -- George Will
What fools these mortals be. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. -- Hesiod
Conscience is a God to all mortals. -- Menander
Money is life to us wretched mortals. -- Hesiod
Security is the chief enemy of mortals. -- William Shakespeare
To many mortals silence great gain brings. -- Aeschylus
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals. -- Steven Erikson
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. -- Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters. -- Rick Riordan
Equality is what does not exist among mortals. -- e. e. cummings
Tis not for mortals always to be blest. -- John Armstrong
Law , the king of all mortals and immortals. -- Pindar
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs! -- Plautus
Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. -- Janet Morris
We are all mortals, and each is for himself. -- Moliere
As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. -- Bodhidharma
You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories. -- Karen Russell
so mortals tend to see only what they can understand. -- Rick Riordan
Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. -- Matthew Green
Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse. -- Tiffany Shlain
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life. -- Homer
The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. -- Zoroaster
While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. -- Phillips Brooks
They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize. -- Homer
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Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals! -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. -- Aeschylus
God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. -- Robert Genn
We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all. -- Homer
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time. -- Homer
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. -- Aeschylus
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor mortals mad! -- William Shakespeare
They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you. -- Melissa Marr
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. -- C. S. Lewis
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals. -- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. -- Charles Spurgeon
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. -- Robert Breault
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. -- George Ade
Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins ! -- Theognis of Megara
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. -- Edward Young
When mortals discuss about the eternity,conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. -- Toba Beta
Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature -- George Ade
We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly. -- Roger Ebert
Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow. -- Charles Churchill
Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. -- Franz Grillparzer
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime. -- George Eliot
Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error. -- Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals, -- Thierry Mugler
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? -- Aeschylus
Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life. -- Heraclitus
Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven. -- Walter Scott
The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen. -- Aeschylus
A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. -- Patricia Briggs
Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is. -- Sidney Sheldon
Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. -- A. E. Housman
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. -- Anne Rice

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