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"Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none."
"Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them."
"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general."
"If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself."
"Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure"."
"Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts."
"Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear."
"I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you."
"It is in identifying yourself with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others that you may understand them and help them."
"Don't want to discuss it, I think it's time for a change You may get disgusted, some think that I'm strange In that case I'll go underground, get some heavy rest Never have to worry, about what is worst and what is best."
"Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds that I may be a vehicle for thee."
"Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening."
"There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway."
"The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book."
"An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain."
"A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest."
"Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids."
"When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having meet a new face, crossed a street we've never crossed before."
"Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God."
"My mind may be American but my heart is British."
