May Quotes - Page 19

• It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Courage, Often Is, People

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Courage, Selfish, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dover Thrift Editions (2015). “The Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.129, Courier Dover Publications

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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

  Black Elk

  Depression, Roots, Bird

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Depression, Friendly, World

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Illumination

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Lying, Years, Experience

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Food, Book, Men

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

  Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow

  Forgiveness, Majesty, Sin

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• It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Murder

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• If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Freedom, Destiny, America

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• Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Agency, Government

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• The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will in such a way that they may be peaceably changed if conflict occurs.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Law, Essence

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.49, VM eBooks

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• In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability of the elite to influence public opinion in the right direction.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Freedom, Ideas

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

  Tacitus

  Freedom, Thinking, Wish

  "Annales", I. 1 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

  Edward Everett

  Freedom, War, Long

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Depression, Lying, Future

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

  Mark Twain

  God, Heaven, Praying

  Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.29, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Graduation, Inspiration, Forever

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• As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together.

  Barack Obama

  Graduation, America, Together

  Commencement Address at Ohio State University, abcnewsradioonline.com. May 5, 2013.

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• It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Morning, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

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• Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Remembrance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

  Lord Chesterfield

  Health, Blessing, Long

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.313

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• In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other mens fore-passed miseries with our own like errours and ill-deservings.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wise, History, Misery

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1687). “The History of the World, in Five Books”, p.3

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• No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

  William Carlos Williams

  Errors, History, Facts

  William Carlos Williams (1956). “In the American Grain”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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