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

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When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

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Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate

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Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

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Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

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Cavil you may, but never criticise.

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The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

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Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

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Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

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I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

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

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Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

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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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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Honesty Quotes , May Quotes