- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
- Every American
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- Nov 07, 2020
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
- Contemplated
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
- Expectation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
- Disoriented
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020