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"Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."
"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."
"The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one."
"A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals."
"The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it."
"One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality."
"You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!"
"If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it."
"Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be."
"Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be."
"We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do."
"It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer."
"You're gonna have to serve somebody; well, it may be the devil, or it may be the Lord, but you're gonna have to serve somebody."
"The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity."
"The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it."
"It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets."
"Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?"
"You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves."
"POET If not in a place, where are the People weeping? LIBERAL They creep weeping in the face, not place. POET Is it something with which we may cope The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?"
"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."
