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May Quotes - Page 107

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.408

What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Burgin (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.82, Univ. Press of Mississippi

When it comes to dreams, one may falter, but the only way to fail is to abandon them.

"Fictional character: Dracula". TV Series "Dracula" ("A Whiff of Sulfur", 2013), www.imdb.com. 2013–2014.

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

Jon Elster (2015). “Explaining Social Behavior”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

John Marshall (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, March 1814-December 1819”, The University of North Carolina Press

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”