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The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.
Jean Racine
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Dramatist
Eye
Glory
Mortals
Names
Shame
Escape
Increases
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For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.
Aeschylus
/
Dramatist
Kind
Mortals
Shadow
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Nature
Answers
Long Distance Relationship
Mortals
Resolution
Taken
Ask
Her
No Question
None
Puts
Question
She
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I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.
Thierry Mugler
/
Fashion Designer
Models
Mortals
Stronger
Taller
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
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Poet
Inspirational
Genius
Mortals
Want
Geniuses
Luckiest
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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles
/
Playwright
All Things
Gains
Life Is
Long
Mortals
Second Place
Strive
Gain
Second
Whose
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And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
Nalini Singh
/
Author
Fragile
Important
Mortals
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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
/
Novelist
Home
Mortals
Novelists
Past
Fully
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Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!
Ice Cube
/
Record Producer
Mere
Mortals
Next
Steps
Jackson
Movie Set
Samuel
Step
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If I were to believe in the stories of the of the gods, then the gods do not need mortals to defend them, do they?
Kamal Haasan
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Film Actor
Mortals
Defend
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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson
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Professional Boxer
Fear
Sports
Boxing
Collapse
Force
Mortals
Feel
Muscle
Attempt
Could
Enter
Even
His
Ludicrous
Realm
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The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus
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Philosopher
Cattle
Eternal
Fame
Goal
Mortals
People
Renounce
Stuff
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Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.
George Santayana
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Philosopher
Truth
Circumstances
Mortals
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Octavio Paz
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Poet
Involuntary
Mortals
Ordinary
Self Expression
Fated
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Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
Abraham Lincoln
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16Th U.s. President
God
God Knows Best
Mortals
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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George Eliot
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Novelist
Glory
Literature
Mortals
Murder
Neighbour
Tempted
Thinking
Buzzing
Easily
Pinch
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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.
Phillips Brooks
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Clergyman
Feet
Fields
May
Mortals
Humblest
Marvel
Revealed
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I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
Paul Weller
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Musician
Impossible
Mortals
Want
Mortal
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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
/
Musician
Mere
Mortals
Understood
Record Business
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Samuel Johnson
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Writer
Life
Leisure
Mortals
Use
Life Time Money
Burdens
Either
Heaviest
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To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
Ellis Peters
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Author
Assistance
Divine
Heaven
Mortals
Protection
Sensible
Backed
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Despair
Discontent
Inconvenience
Mortals
Natural
Thyself
Neither
Room
Persuade
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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
Unkindness
Meanest
None
Service
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There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
John Noble
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Film Actor
Communicate
Eccentricity
Genius
Grace
Inability
Mere
Mortals
Exists
Geniuses
Graces
Pattern
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We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know.
Nick Clooney
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Journalist
Decided
Mortals
Wild
Domestic
Fellow
Perhaps
React
Treat
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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
Gordon W. Allport
/
Fortunate
Handicapped
Mortals
Unhappy
Anybody Else
Scarcely
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There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.
Sophocles
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Playwright
Ancient
Died
Mortals
Among
Life Good Men
Thoroughly
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
Robert Schumann
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Composer
Easier
Impression
Mortals
Poet
Subjective
According
Sees
Simpler
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Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.
Joyce Maynard
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Author
Being Free
Mere
Might
Mortals
Notion
Salinger
Standards
Apply
Literary
Remain
Subscribe
Types
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Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Painter
Casual
Force
Impulse
Mortals
Resistance
Visible
Weight
Actions
External
Powers
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People who know math understand what other mortals understand, but other mortals do not understand them. This asymmetry gives them a presumption of superior ability.
Daniel Kahneman
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Psychologist
Math
Mortals
Presumption
People Know Understand
Superior
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Since the beginning of time, we have expected our leaders to be supermen, unlike mere mortals. We want them to be much greater than us so that we can look up to them.
Jonathan Powell
/
Mere
Mortals
Unlike
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A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
Jane Austen
/
Novelist
Marriage
Home
Men
Doubt
Mortals
No Doubt
Regard
Happiest
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At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
James Beattie
/
Forgetfulness
Grove
Heard
Mortals
Prove
Song
Close
Hamlet
Naught
Sweets
Torrent
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
Kapil Sibal
/
Mortals
Rendering
Superhuman
Unintended Consequences
Exceptionally
Judges
Swayed
Unintended
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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
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Action
Coherence
Mortals
Philosophy
Choose
Current
Direction
Escape
Judges
Stream
Tendency
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In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.
Sarah Maclean
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Author
Foolish
Hero
Heroines
Inspire
Love Is
Love Life
Mere
Mortals
Real
Real Life
Turns
Life Love Best
Heroes
Acts
Final
Ingredient
Life-Threatening
Romances
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Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Theologian
Dissatisfied
Envious
Evil
Mortals
Thoughtful
Hearts
Seed
Several
Sown
Stepmother
Ways
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We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.
Josiah Royce
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Philosopher
Eye
Individuality
Mortals
World
Belong
Seek
Merely
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Aeschylus
/
Dramatist
Journey
Believe
Blow
Cheer
Divine
Fate
Flood
Force
Mortals
Experience Always Believe
Cheers
Evils
Fair
Fears
Ills
Voyage
Whenever
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius
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Poet
Space
Changed
Creatures
Dependent
Diminish
Generations
Increase
Literature
Living Creatures
Mortals
Nations
Runners
Pass
Reviewed
Short Space
Sum
Thus
Torch
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I never saw war, so that is still my vision of manhood: Unitas standing courageously in the pocket, his left arm flung out in a diagonal to the upper deck, his right cocked for the business of passing, down amidst the mortals. Lock and load.
Frank Deford
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Sportswriter
Deck
Load
Manhood
Mortals
Passing
Amidst
Arm
Courageously
Flung
Lock
Pocket
Upper
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From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.
John Muir
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Author
Common
Creator
Dust
Earth
Fund
Homo Sapiens
Insignificant
Mortals
Companions
Elementary
Fellow
Homo
However
Material
Noxious
Sapiens
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Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would say a salutary way - and Reagan was most important in shifting the grand dynamic thrust of the American historical process by ending that.
Rick Perlstein
/
Historian
Mere
Mortals
Thrust
Watergate
Dynamic
Ending
Grand
Salutary
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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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Philosopher
Circumstances
Determined
Diverse
Justify
Mind
Mortals
Thinking
Views
Adopt
Naturally
Minds
Philosophers
Reasons
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
Buddha
/
Wisdom
Arise
Earth
Enlightened
Holy
Incomparable
Leader
Mortals
Universe
Angels
Conduct
Due
Master
Endowed
Nor
Shall
Supremely
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
Sam Houston
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Former United States Senator
All Things
Almighty
Blind
Distress
Eye
Grace
Heavenly
Looks
Mortals
Poor
Rich
Derive
Feeble
Gifts
Worlds
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We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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Film Director
Advantage
Immortal
Mortals
First Place
Squeeze
Take Advantage
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We could try and establish a world in which the great and the powerful adhere to that international law which they require ordinary mortals to adhere to. In other words, there is one international law, and even America and even Russia and China and Japan must adhere to it, and Australia must adhere to it.
Malcolm Fraser
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Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Australia
China
International
International Law
Japan
Mortals
Ordinary
Powerful
Russia
Adhere
Establish
In Other Words
Require
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Rightfully given near-deity status in the early days of industrial America, the J.P. Morgans, Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Vanderbilts of the world not only ran our country, they were also revered - and often despised - as larger-than-life personalities who could perform feats mere mortals could only dream of.
Judy Smith
/
Despised
Feats
Mere
Mortals
Ran
Perform
World Country America
Early
Early Days
Industrial
Personalities
Revered
Rightfully
Status
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