"Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination."
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"The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking."
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"Truths may clash without contradicting each other."
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"Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure."
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"We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises."
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"We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word."
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"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."
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"It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength."
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"If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts."
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"When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness."
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"I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue."
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"We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures."
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"The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other."
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"I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no."
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"There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December."
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"My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy."
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"I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist."
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"And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot."
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"A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!"
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"Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made."
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