Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Plato 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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His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

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There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.

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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

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You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

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Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

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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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Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

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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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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

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For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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