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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.


Edmond Halley

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EDMOND HALLEY This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.
EDMOND HALLEY I earnestly wish them all imaginable success; in the first place that they may not, by the unseasona...
EDMOND HALLEY Aristotle's o...
EDMOND HALLEY The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.
SOCRATES The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods
SOCRATES Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.
PIERCE BROWN Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?
HERMANN HESSE When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.
S.M. WHITE Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD what was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul is lift...
YASMINE GALENORN I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take, I'...
MORTAL The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everythin...
BRAD PITT I presume you're mortal, and may err.
JAMES SHIRLEY Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos null...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) may the gods be with you
RICK RIORDAN In nothing do men approach so nearly to the Gods, as in giving health to men.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.
UNKNOWN In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
CICERO PRO LIGARIO Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
TEMPLE GRANDIN Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number ...
ADAM SMITH Edmond is doing a lot of planning for future growth.
JANET YOWELL Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really h...
SARAH DESSEN Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the ro...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The strands (the gods) weave out of our mortal lives are like a pattern visible only from the heaven...
STEVEN SAYLOR Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the ro...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO He's no longer Teflon Tony -- he's mortal.
PETER RIDDELL It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of me...
CARL SAGAN From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
DAVID ANTIN And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!
ARTHUR RIMBAUD The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.
HARLEY KING Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
GWEN JOHN The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for co...
GEORGE MACDONALD Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They were going to sing at a church in Edmond, but that fell through.
CHARLIE SAMPLES No mortal man is wise at all times.
UNKNOWN I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with...
MARK TWAIN Our approach has been to take no chances whatsoever.
ELON MUSK And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep
LORD BYRON If you approach one step nearer to me, I shall advance three steps towards you. Wherever you walk, I...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less dir...
THOMAS HARDY No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equali...
GEORGE ORWELL The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
F. L. LUCAN The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
LUCAN Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
PLINY THE ELDER The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other lands...
WASHINGTON IRVING The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other lands...
WASHINGTON IRVING Basically, Edmond has a lengthy record and the tips that came in about him was that he had no regard...
JAMES BOND No human thing is of serious importance
PLATO The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the tim...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Nearer, my God, to Thee-- Nearer to Thee-- E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; ...
MRS. SARAH FLOWER ADAMS Where no gods are, spectres rule.
NOVALIS ...no mortal was ever meant to see all the unicorns in the world...
PETER S. BEAGLE There is no place in our budget to begin school construction this year. It may be two or three years...
HANK DAVIS Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON No mere mortal man can do what Christ Jesus did?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer...
BELL HOOKS I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men. [Lat., Homines ad d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The light at the end of the tunnel is not only flickering, but is getting nearer and nearer.
MOHAQHER IQBAL No mortal is independent; we'll someday need someone to lean on
ETC WANYANWU We have all been embroiled in it and if they are getting nearer to a selection then great because it...
ALAN CURBISHLEY On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of ho...
MEG ROSOFF The Greeks think they justly honor players, because they worship the gods who demand plays; the Roma...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be n...
ELBERT HUBBARD As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
LYNDON B. JOHNSON I was recruiting my No. 1 prospect to come back. That's the approach that I took. We just had to pre...
ED ORGERON However degraded or wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species
SENECA When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL Where men can't live gods fare no better.
CORMAC MCCARTHY There are no gods in my coffee cup
TONY LAWRENCE When men make gods, there is no God
EUGENE O'NEILL When men make gods, there is no God!
EUGENE O'NEILL Even an atheist may be ready to concede that a good wine is the drink of gods.
PAUL CARVEL Life's irony;No matter how ugly a guy may look,if he can confidently approach one thousand ladies,on...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.
MEG ROSOFF It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.
CASSANDRA CLARE There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
C.S. LEWIS If there be mortal without love,He wakes to no new life above.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX As long as I could remember, I had looked forward to a handful of wonderful events - a total eclipse...
PHYLLIS EISENSTEIN Were there no women, men might live like gods.
THOMAS DEKKER Were there no women, men might live like gods
THOMAS DEKKER If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods...
HERACLITUS There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civil...
C.S. LEWIS No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
SALLUST Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to sp...
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