May Quotes

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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet. — William Cowper
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable… — Erich Fromm
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber: for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain. — Saadi
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. — Henry Ward Beecher
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to… — Thomas Carlyle
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. — Boris Pasternak
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. — John Lancaster Spalding
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on. — Phil Collins
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness… — Samuel Johnson
There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. — William Shakespeare
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know… — Hal Borland
You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil. — Aesop
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the… — Michael Eric Dyson
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole… — John Donne
The eye of prudence may never shut. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions. — David Hume
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,- Of all… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by… — Barbara Cartland
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be. — J. Paul Getty
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless… — Wallace D. Wattles
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often… — Byron Katie

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