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"People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth."
"Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few."
"If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him."
"What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory."
"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."
"Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
"We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it."
"Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy"
"This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly."
"And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow."
"Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be."
"So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters little where you go, or how often to the same place. Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy there."
"Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone."
"In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us."
"In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies."
"All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him."
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure."
"Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience."
"I am my best friend. Other friends may come and go, but I am always here for me."
"Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized."
