May Quotes - Page 29

• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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• The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
  Jesus is the reason for the season!
  From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
  The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Jesus, Heart

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• At Christmas I no more desire a rose
  Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
  But like of each thing that in season grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Time, Xmas

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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• Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Depression, Dark, Night

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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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• I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Education, Use, Reason

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don't quit!

  Joyce Meyer

  Encouraging, Quitting, Breakthrough

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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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• We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

  C. S. Lewis

  Food, Science, Half

  Christian Reflections Para. 22 (p. 111)

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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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• Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Heart, Giving

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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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• Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.113

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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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• Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Freedom, Democracy, Progress

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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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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• If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

  George Matthew Adams

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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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• 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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• History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Law, History, Defeat

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