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Letter "M" » mortal
«We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.»
Author: Eduardo Galeano
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Keywords:
first,
glass,
glass in,
kiss,
mortal,
second,
seconded,
the first,
The First Kiss,
The Second,
wine,
wines
«The things of mortals, mortal are as they: All pass us by, quickly to fade away, If not, we pass by them and they decay»
«To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go»
Author: Mary Oliver
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About:
Living,
Love
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Keywords:
able,
abler,
ablest,
against,
against time,
boned,
bones,
comes,
depends,
go,
go to,
hold,
in this,
In this World,
knowing,
let,
let it go,
let me know,
live,
live in,
mortal,
must,
on it,
own,
The Time,
things,
this,
three,
threes,
time,
Time Life,
To do,
To Live,
when the time comes
«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
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Clergyman,
Teacher,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alike,
business life,
chances,
cheerful,
faces,
facing,
hopeful,
mortal,
mortal man,
Mortal Men,
rough,
smooth,
The Men,
took
«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.»
«The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.»
Author: Stephen King
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Writer)
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Keywords:
accepted,
And logic,
Everything or Nothing,
explain,
first cause,
happily,
mania,
mortal,
Or logic,
religious,
Satan,
tossed,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
window
«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.»
«The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bosom,
Death of,
e'en,
finite,
generation,
glass,
go after,
i.e.,
I E,
mortal,
realities,
reflected,
temporal,
There exist,
The Eternal,
vegetable,
vegetate,
vegetated,
vegetates,
vegetating
«The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Reputation
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Keywords:
afford,
clay,
gild,
gilded,
gilding,
gilds,
loam,
mortal,
mortal man,
Mortal Men,
painted,
purest,
spotless,
treasure