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You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.
One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.
We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.
We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.
Jesus Christ, in His infinite love, has become what we are, in order that He may make us entirely what He is.
This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people.
May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.
This may shock you, but the most important person in your life is you. You are meant to be 'full of yourself.
Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.
[Jill Stein] don't have to engage in soundbites here as you may have experienced with some of the mass media.
Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.
If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.
However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.
It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.
There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.
A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms
We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.
It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Some may not like the Constitution's requirements, but that doesn't make the Constitution a pirate's charter.
Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.
Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.
We must remember that judicial nominees are constrained in what they may discuss and how they may discuss it.