Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Cities Quotes, May Quotes

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

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Stocks of companies selling commodity-like products should come with a warning label: "Competition may prove hazardous to human wealth".

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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

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The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

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There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

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There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

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A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

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A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

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It is almost inevitable that our faith will be challenged. We may at times find ourselves surrounded by others and yet standing in the minority or even standing alone concerning what is acceptable and what is not. Do we have the moral courage to stand firm for our beliefs, even if by so doing we must stand alone?

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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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...chance may do anything.

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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

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Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

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Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

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Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.

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You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy.

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