#mort

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use. ↗

— John Woolman

#assuredly #children #delight #direct #doth

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy. ↗

— Early Wynn

#his #hitter #look #mortal #pitcher

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet. ↗

— Terence Young

#i #immortal #think #written #yet

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. ↗

— John Yoo

#american soldiers #any #battlefield #distant #far

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Andrew Young

#fool #heaven #hold #idlers #lay

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. ↗

— Edward Young

#immortal #learning #quote #renown #scraps

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves. ↗

— Edward Young

#mortal #themselves #think

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. ↗

— Edward Young

#how #know #learning #little #mortals

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. ↗

— Edward Young

#awe #destroy #fame #gives #glorious

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. ↗

— Toby Young

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure