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May Quotes by John Muir
- It may not be easy, life isn't easy, but dreams keep you alive.
- What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.
- A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.
- Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light…
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body…
- Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents…
- Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from…
- In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.
- None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon…
- Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water…
- The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible…
- Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the…
- Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient…
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
- Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm…
- There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
- One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of…
- So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong