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May Quotes - Page 108

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: Novels Six Through Nine; Plus a Father Tim Novel”, p.1578, Penguin

So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.

Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.16, Penguin

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.

J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.430, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.

Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.54, Harvard University Press

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

Henry Fielding (1824). “The Works of Henry Fielding, with a Life of the Author: Plays”, p.199