Mortals Quotes - Page 10

• O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly things has caused mortals to forget the the Name of the Lord. Not even one of them will go along with you in the end.

  Guru Angad

  Fire, Names, Achievement

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• My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

  Chris Hadfield

  Life, Thinking, Optimism

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• We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

  Moliere

  Self

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• The earliest truth that we're taught is that there's a world alongside this world, with spirits, not mortals, an enchanted universe of fairies, wizards, leprechauns and trolls. They are all around us. One has only to open his eyes.

  William Holman Hunt

  Eye, Wizards, World

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• A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dream, Wall, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com

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• Some feelings are to mortals given With less of earth in them than heaven.

  Walter Scott

  Heaven, Feelings, Earth

  Sir Walter Scott (1826). “The Poetical Works of Walter Scott”, p.93

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• All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

  Josephus

  Spiritual, Forever, Soul

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• I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!

  Lee De Forest

  Moon, Atmosphere, Mars

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• It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.

  Jackson Pearce

  Broken, Mind, Pieces

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• Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

  Shan Sa

  Hero, Conquer

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• Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals

  John Vanbrugh

  Past, Tasks, Sin

  Sir John Vanbrugh (1759). “The life of Sir J. Vanbrugh The relapse; or, Virtue in danger. The provok'd wife, with a new scene. Æsop, in two parts. The false friend”, p.103

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• In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."

  Tiffany Shlain

  Curse

  "Tiffany Shlain on being 'Connected'". Interview with Ysolt Usigan, www.cbsnews.com. September 26, 2011.

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• Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, War, Errors

  Abraham Lincoln, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.330, Fordham Univ Press

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• Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Unhappy

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• What sets these - and all - racers apart from less daredevilish mortals is their complete lack of fear and their joy of doing something on the edge. They love to speed because it is dangerous.

  Peter Golenbock

  Joy, Racing, Speed

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• The state of grace is nothing other than purity, and it gives heaven to those who clothe themselves in it. Holiness, therefore, is simply the state of grace purified, illuminated, beautified by the most perfect purity, exempt not only from mortal sin but also from the smallest faults; purity will make saints of you! Everything lies in this!

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Lying, Giving, Perfect

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Children, Book, Law

  Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

  Erwin Rommel

  Ideas, Danger, Fixed

  "The Rommel Papers". Book edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart. Chapter 11: "The Initiative Passes," p. 244, 1953.

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• Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead because of this government. If you are too stupid to turn things around with your vote, there are people out here like me who are willing to turn things around with guns, force and violence. We hope our method does not become necessary.

  Hal Turner

  Country, Sorry, Stupid

  "'Assassination' Schedule Announced For Congress". www.wnd.com. December 6, 2006.

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• Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

  George Ade

  Hygiene, Literature, Should

  "Fables in Slang".

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• The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.

  Cesar Aira

  Greatness, Magic, Use

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• 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

  Beautiful, Desire, Way

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• However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brotherhood, May, Common

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