Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Simple Quotes, May Quotes

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

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My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

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May God deliver us from the easygoing, smooth, comfortable Christianity that never lets the truth get hold of us.

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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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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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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

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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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And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

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How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

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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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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

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Defeat may be victory in disguise.

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

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O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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