May Quotes - Page 283

A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.

Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.

We are practicing what we preach so that we may preach what we practice.

An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today.

Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.