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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
Every painting I do is related to the last one: it may be a continuation of a previous painting or it may be a reaction against it.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.
I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.
When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.
I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.
May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
Are you going to win every argument?" He was pretty certain he'd asked her that once before. May be twice. "Only the important ones.
Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.
Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.
I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.
I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.
He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.
So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?
Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident.