May Quotes - Page 28

• There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.

  Learned Hand

  Anger, Passion, Succeed

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anger, Passion, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

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• Who knows but the world may end tonight

  Robert Browning

  Time, Tonight, World

  "The Last Ride Together" l. 22 (1855)

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• Ah! let us love, my Love, for Time is heartless,
  Be happy while you may!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Time, Heartless

  Alphonse de Lamartine, “The Lake”

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• Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.

  Ben Jonson

  Love, Sports, Time

  'Volpone' (1605) act 3, sc. 5.

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• Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Time, Bird

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Twilight, Farewell

  'Crossing the Bar' (1889)

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• He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

  Hannah More

  Time, Sick, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 583), 1895.

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• If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Mean, Men

  "The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

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• Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

  Thomas Browne

  Time, Thinking, Long

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.194

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• While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Time, Years, Age

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• Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Youth, Sometimes

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Horse, War

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• The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

  Charles Lamb

  Time, Men, People

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.215

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• We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Giving

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “Stay Alive All Your Life”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Giving, Religion

  Norman Vincent Peale (2012). “The Power Of Positive Thinking For Young People”, p.29, Random House

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• It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus.
  Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done through the United Nations, not merely to preserve peace but also to make change, even radical change, without violence.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1027, Simon and Schuster

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Two, Doubt

  1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Order

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  James de la Vega

  Business, Thinking, Eels

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• This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

  John Ilhan

  Business, Educational, Simple

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• Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Business, Media, Advertising

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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