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There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.
Cases of genocide carried out as policy may be found in historical documents as well as in the oral histories of Indigenous communities.
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.
By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.
miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.
Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.
There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.
Mexico's No. 1 drug lord has escaped from prison and may be headed to the U.S. So Donald Trump was wrong. They ARE sending us their best.
I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.
How beautiful is modesty! It winneth upon all beholders; but a word or a glance may destroy the pure love that should have been for thee.
This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.
The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.
For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.
Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?
We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.