May Quotes - Page 173

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.

New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

He who writes much will not easily escape a manner, such a recurrence of particular modes as may be easily noted.