May Quotes - Page 335

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!

Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.

The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed