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merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces—in the beginning, there was spice.

Stefan Zweig

I was under strict orders from Chiron never to take my anger out on regular mortals,

Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"It is not easy for us to tell the difference between two mortals" said the Elf.

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

Gods are different from mortals, boy.

Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero

I had to stop her from hurting the mortals.

Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth

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Few mortals have ever done this and survived:

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

You mortals and your short lives.

Rick Riordan -- The Son of Neptune

Poor mortals, how we labor all in vain!

Sophocles -- Antigone

I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister’s Black Veil

...dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;

Edgar Allan Poe -- The Raven

Lestat hunted for mortals every night,

Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire

Now Lucy had wanted very badly to try the other spell, the one that made you beautiful beyond the lot of mortals.

C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

Here I am at your mercy, princess—
are you a goddess or a mortal?

Homer -- The Odyssey

...what mortal imagination could conceive it?

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

they have more in them than mortal knowledge.

William Shakespeare -- Macbeth

"Percy," she said, her voice tight, "Rachel is just a mortal."

Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian

It is our mortal lot to suffer and...

William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

But the voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful:

John Milton -- Paradise Lost

For it is perilous for mortal man to walk out of the world of this Sun,

J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers

The fatal hand had grappled with the mystery of life, and was the bond by which an angelic spirit kept itself in union with a mortal frame.

Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Birthmark

In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring.

O. Henry -- The Gift of the Maji

who has suffered almost more than any mortal can bear.

C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

Granma said the understanding run deeper as the years went by, and she reckined it would get beyond anything mortal folks could think upon or explain.

Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

Jonathan Shadowhunter called on me then, and begged me to mix my blood with the blood of mortal men in a Cup and create a race of warriors who would rid this earth of demonkind.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass

Brother Daniel was talking of the last moment we knew of in Mary’s human life... Our Blessed Mother had been taken up into heaven, body and soul. What did we think of that? We went around the room, everyone declaring it was an honor for a mere mortal.

Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies

Pierc’d the proud Grecian’s only mortal part:

Virgil -- The Aeneid

No mortal man has gone this way before,

Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh

I will be ready to risk my life at any time ... for the mortal world with whose safety we are charged.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones

You unrivaled lords of jealousy—
scandalized when goddesses sleep with mortals,

Homer -- The Odyssey

Now, think of the most unlucky mortal ever born—
since you ask me, yes, they say I am his son."

Homer -- The Odyssey

We live too far apart, out in the surging sea,
off at the world’s end—
no other mortals come to mingle with us.

Homer -- The Odyssey

But so many other things we suffered, past that count—
what mortal in this wide world could tell it all?

Homer -- The Odyssey

It’s light work for a willing god to save a mortal

Homer -- The Odyssey

Show me the trick to trap this ancient power,
or he’ll see or sense me first and slip away.
It’s hard for a mortal man to force a god.

Homer -- The Odyssey

bringing light to immortal gods and mortal men,

Homer -- The Odyssey

Odysseus journeys home—the exile must return.
But not in the convoy of the gods or mortal men.
No, on a lashed, makeshift raft and wrung with pains,

Homer -- The Odyssey

So now at last, you gods, you train your spite on me
for keeping a mortal man beside me.

Homer -- The Odyssey

and Odysseus took the seat that Hermes just left,
while the nymph set out before him every kind
of food and drink that mortal men will take.

Homer -- The Odyssey

Hardly right, is it,
for mortal woman to rival immortal goddess?

Homer -- The Odyssey

She is mortal after all
and you, you never age or die �.

Homer -- The Odyssey

Ino, a mortal woman once with human voice...

Homer -- The Odyssey

there he sits and takes his wine, a mortal like a god.

Homer -- The Odyssey

As the sun sprang up, leaving the brilliant waters in its wake,
climbing the bronze sky to shower light on immortal gods
and mortal men across the plowlands ripe with grain—

Homer -- The Odyssey

I’m just a mortal man.

Homer -- The Odyssey