Mark Twain Quotes, Age Quotes, May Quotes

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

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The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

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He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beauty Quotes , May Quotes

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , May Quotes , Ends Quotes

A drop of ink may make a million think.

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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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Your birth may be common, But death must be history.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , May Quotes , Common Quotes

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

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Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

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I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

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a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

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Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

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May we muster courage at the crossroads, courage for the conflicts, courage to say, "no," courage to say, "yes," for courage counts.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , May Quotes , Conflict Quotes

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Thinking Quotes , May Quotes

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Crooks Quotes , May Quotes