Best may & mortals Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”

“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”

Knows Mind Wells May House Black Poor Brain Disease Mortals Poison Suspects Suspicion Plague Pestilence

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.”

Men World May Art Common Attention Quality Imagine Fame Projects Every Man Reputation Mortals Hopeless Imagine That Compelled Herds Pretension

Author:Samuel Johnson

“No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”

May Bears Mortals Bribe Bribery

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?”

Ifs Men May Soul Whole Body Spirit Mortals Harsh Instructors

Book:The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

Source: The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)

“The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.”

May Purpose Perfect Failing Mortals Perceive Almighty Erring God Knows Best

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

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