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"The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes."
"Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation."
"May is much sunshine through small leaves."
"Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you."
"If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson."
"Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul."
"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars."
"Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson."
"There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death."
"An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything."
"There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place."
"Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others."
"You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck."
"Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be."
"One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King."
"Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace."
"By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual."
"If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it."
"Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they."
"Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many."
