Mortals Quotes - Page 14

• Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Hands, People

  "The people's pottage".

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• No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

  Sallust

  Passion, Men, Demise

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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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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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay.

  Sam Savage

  Religious, Art, Thinking

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• Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
  Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way.
  We mortals are composed of two great schools
  Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Christian, Religious, School

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• I’d heard about the Baptists from Jacob Henry’s mother. According to her, Baptists were a strange lot. They put you in water to see how holy you were. Then they ducked you under the water three times. Didn’t matter a whit if you could swim or no. If you didn’t come up, you got dead and your mortal soul went to Hell. But if you did come up, it was even worse. You had to be a Baptist.

  Robert Newton Peck

  Mother, Water, Swim

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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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• The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Life, Believe, Ideas

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• There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God....Dropping their present beliefs, they will recognize harmony and as the spiritual reality and discord as the material unreality. Chapter VII pp. 224 and 228 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Spiritual, Reality, Keys

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• Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

  Nicholas Grimald

  Friendship, Men, World

  'Of Friendship'

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• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Flower, Looks, Gone

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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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• Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Mistake, Errors, Demise

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• Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Peace, Race

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• We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Life, Work, Tired

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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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• 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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• 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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• Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long as a thousand years, and tower far above our mortal heads. As such they are symbols and keepers of unlimited power, longevity, and timelessness. An untouched forest, studded with trees of all ages, sizes and types, is more than a mysterious, magical place - it is one of the energy reservoirs of nature. Within its boundaries stand ancient and new sentinels, guardians of the universal force which has manifested on the the Earth. . . .

  Scott Cunningham

  Vegetables, Years, Long

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• What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

  Saint Basil

  Life, Men, Soul

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• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

  Susan Orlean

  Hunting, Orchids, Occupation

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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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• 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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• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

  Euripides

  Sad, Children, Pain

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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