#mortal

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. ↗

— Edmond Halley

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. ↗

— Hesiod

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Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. ↗

— Hesiod

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ↗

— Horace

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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children. ↗

— Jane Howard

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. ↗

— George Ade

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