Mortals Quotes - Page 7

• The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Army, People

  Ulysses S. Grant (1990). “Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50”, p.129, Library of America

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• You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fashion, Utterance, Weak

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• Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Power, Men

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• Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

  Leigh Hunt

  Tears, Lasts, Produce

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.27

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• The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

  Johann Joachim Becher

  Change, Kings, Flames

  "Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

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• When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he
  is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  History, Soul, Thank God

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• Mortal men ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Men, Use, May

  Marsilio Ficino (1975). “Liber I”, Shepheard-Walwyn Limited

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• Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

  Franz Rosenzweig

  Sweet, Lying, Book

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• With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

  Royal Robbins

  Men, World, Poor

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• I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.

  King James I

  Mother, War, Errors

  On Roman Catholics, at the opening of parliament, 1604.

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• Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

  Christopher Pike

  Believe, Thieves, Right Time

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

  Karen Russell

  Stories, Realizing

  "Vampires in the Lemon Grove". Book by Karen Russell, February 12, 2013.

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• To be saved is here, local and mortal

  A. R. Ammons

  Saved, Locals

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• Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Heaven, Preparation, Birth

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Reading, Would Be

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

  Joseph Addison

  Success, Merit, Command

  'Cato' (1713) act 1, sc. 2, l. 43

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• May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments. May our testimonies ever grow stronger as we seek to find the fountain of eternal truth. May the brotherhood that exists in our quorum be of comfort and strength and security as we pass through this mortal part of our existence. May the joy of gospel service ever abide in our hearts as we go forward to fulfill our duties and responsibilities as servants in our Father in Heaven's kingdom.

  L. Tom Perry

  Father, Responsibility, Heart

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• This mortal probation is a brief period-just a short span, linking the eternity of the past with the eternity of the future. Yet it was to be a period of tremendous importance. It is, in fact, the most vital period of our entire eternal existence. In this mortal state we come face to face with innumerable temptations and pressures. Sometimes we come in contact with advocates of wrongdoing, disobedience, and sin. Lucifer is going about tempting those who can be tempted to see if he can lead them astray.

  ElRay L. Christiansen

  Past, Temptation, Pressure

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• And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

  Thomas Keneally

  Thinking, Design, Church

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• Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith "thou shalt" to me is my mortal foe!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Idols, Acquiescence, Foe

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• In Judith Barrington's striking collection, Horses and the Human Soul, human emotions come ushered and accompanied by animal companions, especially the horses this speaker loves. Here they are witnesses, companions to the spirit, and as vulnerably mortal as human beings. Socially and politically alert, lamenting and celebrating, Barrington's passionate poems inscribe the broad range of her affections.

  Mark Doty

  Horse, Animal, Soul

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• The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

  Samuel Davies

  Waiting, Library, Nonsense

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• Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

  Theodor Storm

  Love Is, Men, Solitude

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• Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Primitive Man, Vices

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• I have heard of that idea [i.e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that...they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity.

  Haile Selassie

  Mistake, Men, Ideas

  "Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind" by Jawara D. King, (p. 295), 2009.

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