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"It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."
"Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be."
"The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion."
"Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another."
"You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others."
"Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being."
"What's dead may never die."
"Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable."
"Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them."
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
"One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
"I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
"I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind."
"Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible."
"May God give back to you in love all the love you have given."
"Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable."
"Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle."
"Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there."
"I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back."
"The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance."
