Mortals Quotes
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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, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.
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Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.
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When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.
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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 in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
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It was like him, too, to love her and admit to it before he knew if she loved him. Maybe only mortals expected to barter their hearts.
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What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.
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Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
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So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
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We’re mortals, and you do question your mortality when something like this happens. But he’s over the hurdle now.
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It used to be felt that you had to know someone in the music business to get into it. It was not for mere mortals like us. This enthused people and enfranchised them to become part of culture.
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Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
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Jesus became mortal to give you immortality; and today, through Him, you can be free.
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All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
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Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
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If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
