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Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise. — Janet Morris

My king, I do not know all things but I do know that we mortals cannot orchestrate for the gods what they have agreed to accomplish. — Ray Anyasi

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. — Horace

To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope

There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say. — Kami Garcia

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight. — Amos Bronson Alcott

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Womi is a world of mortals and immortals where the truth is uncovered. It's main mission is to give out the divine message to the chosen ones. — Womi

When mortals discuss about the eternity,
conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. — Toba Beta

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment. — Robert Genn

Mortals. Everything is so black and white to you. — Kami Garcia

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. — George Ade

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be — Jude Morgan

You mortals baffle me. — Steven Erikson

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Wherefore all these things are but the names which mortals
have given, believing them to be true — Parmenides

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. — George Eliot

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord. — John Muir

Needless to say, genders cheer up the everyday life of ordinary mortals too. — Guy Deutscher

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell

Mortals could rarely recognize their true feelings before those true feelings hit them in the face — Lauren Kate

It always disappointed me when mortals put themselves first and failed to see the big picture - the importance of putting me first — Rick Riordan

Death is every mortal's life to be alive! — Munia Khan

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell

Mortals are equal; their mask differs. — Voltaire

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly. — Horace

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe. — Mervyn Peake

Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals? — R.A. Salvatore

The underlying logic of sacrifice was always the same: In order to gain the god's goodwill, destroy what you value most. — Barry B. Powell

Mortals can face many things, but they cannot face their true identity. — Lauren Kate

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends? — Flora Thompson

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals. — Bodhidharma

Mortals don't see the fey. Donia smiled wryly: if they did, Keenan would never have convinced any of them to trust him. — Melissa Marr

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. — Aeschylus

There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order. — Richelle Mead

Mortals search for what they are unable to give, what they lack within themselves. — Emma Raveling

Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien — Hugh McDiarmid

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom. — Robert Browning

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies — Edward Gibbon

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. — Charles Spurgeon

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri

Fiery goddess in search of the perfect god. Soar with me through clouds, frolic under the stars, hand me the moon for my own. Mortals need not reply. — Kate Perry

Money is life to us wretched mortals. — Hesiod

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out. — C.S. Lewis

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi

While he lived on and on, freezing and thawing, these mortals went through routines, lived and died, unaware that he even existed. 'It's — Hugh Howey

What we feel is mortal, and won't come again. — Ruth Padel

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals. — Norm MacDonald

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind. — Xenophanes

Pain is the curse of mortals. We must learn to live with it. — Uday Mane

Youth is a mortal wound. — Katherine Paterson

Unable to resist, she said, "Mortals also go there to worship a mouse god. His likeness is everywhere. There's a duck demigod too. — Kresley Cole

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. — Henry David Thoreau

The Gods know what it is to be eternal, and they love to toy with mortals who use absolutes. — Josephine Angelini

Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. — Zoroaster

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right. — John Buchan

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken. — Patricia Briggs

For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools? — Erasmus

Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates. — Joseph Delaney

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay. — Abraham Lincoln

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals. — Dennis Prager

Don't you think it's best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these days. — Kimberly Spencer

Cupid is a knavish lad,
Thus to make poor mortals mad! — William Shakespeare

For us mortals, love is greater than justice. — Melanie Dickerson

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

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr

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

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals — J.M. Barrie

Time is an abstraction of eternity. A glimpse, for mortals, of what could be if we spend ours wisely in life. — Dean Cavanagh

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

To many mortals silence great gain brings. — Aeschylus

The record business has always mystified me. Sometimes there are reasons why things sell or don't sell that can't be understood by mere mortals. — Paul Shaffer

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. — Benjamin Franklin

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

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

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better. — Xenophanes

Mortals fantasied that love was eternal and its loss unimaginable. Now we know neither is true. Love remained mortal, while we became eternal. — Neal Shusterman

Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering. — Pindar

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals. — Franz Grillparzer

Tis not for mortals always to be blest. — John Armstrong

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly. — Roger Ebert

The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous. — Jostein Gaarder

And cursed be the illusion for mortals, love, and law: love is a lying fiction, and only hate is true. — Felix Dahn

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. — Trudi Canavan

Death is not the end! The exit for the world of mortals is the entrance to the world of immortals! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. — Aeschylus

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you. — Anne Rice

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken. — Roald Amundsen

Werewolves and silver bullets!" Shakespeare coughed a quick laugh and shook his head. "Lord, what fools these mortals be! — Michael Scott

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout. — Francois Rabelais

As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves. — Bodhidharma

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
The Man from Archangel — Arthur Conan Doyle

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools. — Melina Marchetta

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days. — Euripides

Mortals, screw 'em. — Eoin Colfer

Truly upon mortals cometh swift of foot their evil and his offence upon him that trespasseth against Right. — Aeschylus