Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, May Quotes

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

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Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

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The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

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I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

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And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

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The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

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We still find very few [stocks] that even mildly interest us. That dismal fact is testimony to the insanity of valuations reached during The Great Bubble. Unfortunately, the hangover may prove to be proportional to the binge.

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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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We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

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You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

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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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A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

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You may ask me for anything you like except time.

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On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

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