"To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe."
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"“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”"
"I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do."
"Great men may die, but there ideas won't."
"Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned."
"We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better."
"You may be on land, yet not in a garden."
"Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]"
"Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire."
"A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice."
"Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing."
"Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go."
"Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning."
"Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full."
"Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales."
"Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off."
"Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed"
"Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it."
"Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it." - Vronksy {Anna Karenina}"
"The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience."