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"Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways."
"So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything."
"Give me women, wine and snuff Until I cry out 'hold, enough!' You may do so san objection Till the day of resurrection; For bless my beard then aye shall be My beloved Trinity."
"No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot."
"A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things."
"We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust."
"I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay."
"Perhaps I’m tired of waiting for something I may never find."
"I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!"
"If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve."
"When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me."
"God defend me from myself."
"Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same."
"The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family."
"All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in."
"The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her."
"Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it."
"Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail."
"Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear."
"Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week."
