"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

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"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

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"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."

Pierre Salinger, American Public Servant

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"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn."

Burt Bacharach, American Composer

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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."

Owen Glendower, Welsh Royalty

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"Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone."

Elizabeth Fry, English Clergyman

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"The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not."

Lukas Foss, German Composer

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"They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade."

John Paul Stevens, American Judge

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"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

Frank Sinatra, American Musician

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"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables."

Vernon Duke, Russian Composer

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"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."

Compassion

"But to us, probability is the very guide of life."

Life

"The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of."

Care

"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."

Enjoyment

"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."

Nature

"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."

Time

"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."

World

"Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others."

Interest

"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."

Nature

"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."

Happiness