Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Beauty Quotes, May Quotes

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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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

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In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

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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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It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

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You may ask me for anything you like except time.

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Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

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From a little spark may burst a flame.

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History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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

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While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

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