Alexander Pope Quotes, Too Late Quotes, May Quotes

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

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What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

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Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

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You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.

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You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

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You may talk. And I may listen. And miracles might happen.

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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

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Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

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But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.

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For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

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The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

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