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«A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Immortality
| Keywords:
immortal, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men
«Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, propagation, watering, wither
«Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can»
«The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
| Keywords:
alike, business life, chances, cheerful, faces, facing, hopeful, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, rough, smooth, The Men, took
«For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
annihilation, entire, fellows, final, folly, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, spite, survives, wickedness
«. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crossed, despite, ghosts, goblin, goblins, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, passed, perplexities, perplexity, pleasant, put together, The Witches, witches, witching
«The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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abolish, abolishes, abolishing, forms, holds, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, poverty
«Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
brought, disobedience, forbidden, forbidden fruit, fruit, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, taste, woe
«Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
ceasing, celebrate, chants, diviner, diviners, enters, enter upon, funeral, heritage, hymn, hymns, Lamentations, mortals, mortal man, Mortal Men, mournful, numbered
«The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
afford, clay, gild, gilded, gilding, gilds, loam, mortal, mortal man, Mortal Men, painted, purest, spotless, treasure
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