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“There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.”

Wells Made Suffering Perfect Dog Words Of Wisdom Perfection Fellows Profound Saint Wit Mortals Manifest Concealed Latent Estimating Wit And Wisdom

Book:Stickeen

Source: Stickeen

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way." ... "Surely a better time must be drawing nigh when godlike human beings will become truly humane, and learn to put their animal fellow mortals in their hearts instead of on their backs or in their dinners.”

Way Humans Heart Human Beings Animal Fellows Dinner Drawing Mortals Vegetarian Glimpse Humane Godlike

Author:John Muir

“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”

Inspirational Enough Individual Simple Steps Humility Pride Claims Fellows Errors Humble Mortals Liable Demise

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical world which limit or challenge his control, the disease germs that attack him and his domesticated plants and animals, and the insects that carry many of these germs as well as working notable direct injury. This is not the age of man, however great his superiority in size and intelligence; it is literally the age of insects.”

“Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.”

Felt Sun Environment Share Planets Shadow Fellows Species Mortals No Hope Kinship

Author:Jon Wynne-Tyson

“A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?”

“Let us be adventurers for another world. It is at least a fair and noble chance; and there is nothing in this worth our thoughts or our passions. If we should be disappointed, we are still no worse than the rest of our fellow-mortals; and if we succeed in our expectations we are eternally happy.”

Ifs World Should Stills Passion Chance Succeed Expectations Fairs Eternity Fellows Noble Mortals Disappointed Our Thoughts Another World Adventurer

Author:Gilbert Burnet

“These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.”

People Should Able Life Is Compassion Stupid Movement Goodness And Love Fellows Ugly Accepted Wit Pity Admire Mortals Noses Cherish Tolerate Disposition Inconsistent Rectify

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“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.”

Men Ends Life Is Hell Fellows Finals Mortals Folly Spite Wickedness Annihilation

Author:Marquis de Sade

“Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?”

World Love Feels Humanity Poor Labor Fellows Slave Mortals Giants Agony Good Love

Book:The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

Source: The Complete Poetry of John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn + Ode to a Nightingale + Hyperion + Endymion + The Eve of St. Agnes + Isabella + Ode to Psyche + Lamia + Sonnets and more from one of the most beloved English Romantic poets

“We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey.”

Ifs Journey Fellows Mortals God Love Traveler Fellow Travelers

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.”

May Stills Common Members Fellows Species Mortals Brotherhood Wretched

Author:Seneca the Younger