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May Quotes - Page 160

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

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Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “A Princess of Mars (Science Fiction Classic): From the Author of Tarzan of the Apes, Barsoom Series, Llana of Gathol, Pirates of Venus, The Land That Time Forgot & Pellucidar”, p.62, e-artnow

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.52, e-artnow

Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now.

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.88, New World Library

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.

Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag

Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.97, Grove Press

Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.122

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Dennis Potter (2015). “The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994”, p.409, Oberon Books