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"It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character."
"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
"It may in fact be utterly impossible to be successful without helping others to become successful."
"You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!"
"At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness."
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you."
"Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage."
"The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, "You're not finished with me yet," and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live."
"Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence."
"As you may know, previously as Attorney General and now as Governor, I have supported legislation to close the gun show loophole in North Carolina."
"So they actually put it into their mission statement, and they start changing things as a result. They may change how worship works. They may actively recruit folks and try and get them to come and help them to feel comfortable and get them involved in leadership, and there's a variety of ways."
"It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites."
"We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious."
"A man may be humble through vainglory."
"I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention."
"A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it"
"Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected."
"Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment."
"Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have."
"Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity."
