William Butler Yeats Quotes, Age Quotes, May Quotes

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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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

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Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

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For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.

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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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I die but first I have possessed, And come what may, I have been blessed.

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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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My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

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It may also be pertinent to ask whether a greater effort in the less expensive basic stages of research may not lead to reductions of effort in the far costlier stages of development and prototype construction.

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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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

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The severest justice may not always be the best policy

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In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

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In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.

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Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , May Quotes , Merit Quotes

You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!

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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

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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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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason.

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