May Quotes

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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,… — Walter Savage Landor
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. — Saadi
What people need and what they want may be very different. — Elbert Hubbard
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,… — Walter Bagehot
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses. — Sydney Schanberg
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods… — Leo Tolstoy
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious… — Jerome K. Jerome
In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I… — Abraham Lincoln
I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best… — Abraham Lincoln
Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard… — Abraham Lincoln
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor… — Abraham Lincoln
I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration. — Abraham Lincoln
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other… — Abraham Lincoln
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a… — James Madison
Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of… — Benjamin Franklin
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means… — Thomas Jefferson
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive… — George Washington
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the… — Noah Webster
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of… — James Madison

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