Abraham Lincoln Quotes, People Quotes, May Quotes

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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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Legs Quotes , May Quotes

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , May Quotes

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

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Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Light Quotes , May Quotes

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

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A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

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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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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

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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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You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , May Quotes

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

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Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , May Quotes , Individual Quotes

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

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It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

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It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

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...chance may do anything.

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We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , May Quotes , Advantage Quotes

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Together Quotes , May Quotes

I followed you.' I saw no one.' That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

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