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Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.
If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.
What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your voice we are waiting to hear...you are the determining factor.
An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.
The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.
The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.
Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.
For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Although you may get exhausted sometimes, you can still get over it if you have people around you who give you warm words.
However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
I haven't anything against whores, except this: some of them may have an honest tongue but they all have dishonest hearts.
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.
To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.
An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.
I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.
I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.
You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
I may be a lifelong 'downtowner,' but Central Park really is the most amazing and the most beautiful part of New York City.
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.
Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that he knows how to use it.