Who shall say, that I may not then be tortured by such late regrets: that I may not then look from my exile on my empty place and undone work?
A postman may help us, or he may not, - just as it happens.
Who knows what this remedy, with which he has cured you, may not in time have a bad effect on you?
Possibly I may not always be in this mind, but I certainly feel that it will require some time to induce me to take the step which your Majesty desires.
You have seen so little of me: I may not be really so -- so nice-looking as I seem to you.
For so the bitterness of woe seems less; But if we may not in our language mourn, What will the polish'd give us in return?
Every kind of help given to another, on proper motives, is an act of charity; and there is scarcely any man in such a straitened condition as that he may not, on certain occasions, assist his neighbour.
It may not be useless to recapitulate some of the most important prerogatives which the senate appeared to have regained by the election of Tacitus.
It may or may not be putting the same thought in another form; but that is the way I put it.
But you know what I know, Jack, and it may not be so very easy as it seems, after all.
If I could have gone to some distant place, I might have found relief in that, but the thing is not to be thought of, for the same reason.
At present it may not be, for mine arm is stiff from this small touch, and I would fain do you full honor when we cross swords again.
Tell me what is your purpose, and see if he may not aid it.
One little seat may be empty; one slight form that gladdened the father’s heart, and roused the mother’s pride to look upon, may not be there.
Strictly speaking, it may not be more impressive now, than at any other time; for the hours steal as swiftly on, at other periods, and their flight is little heeded.
If you ever find a man changing his habitation without any reasonable pretext, depend upon it, that, although he may not be aware of the fact himself, it is because he and his knocker are at variance.
That all men should live in equally beautiful houses is a dream that may or may not be attained.
It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.
If the poor are thus utterly demoralized, it may or may notbe practical to raise them.
There may or may not be some entertainment in reading how I found at last in an anarchist club or a Babylonian temple what I might have found in the nearest parish church.
We must ask permission to go to the refectory even for a glass of water; and finally we may not keep a book in which we can write a line, or which we may take away with us.
The patient may rebel or submit; may accuse himself, or accuse outside powers; and he may or he may not be tormented by the theoretical mystery of why he should so have to suffer.
It only lasted a few seconds, and was most vivid and real to me, though it may not be clear in words.
The principles of the former, as laid down by the Greeks, we may notrealise in an age so marred by false ideals as our own.
I do not say that poet and painter may not treat of the same subject.
There is no passion that we cannot feel, no pleasure that we may not gratify, and we can choose the time of our initiation and the time of our freedom also.
Mellows, when I complimented him on the sanitary advantages it may or may not possess; 'I wish I had never seen the town!
This is no uncommon chance, but one that befalls some of us any day; perhaps it may not be quite uninteresting to compare notes with the reader respecting an experience so familiar and a journey so uncommercial.
It may not be amiss in this place concisely to remark the origin and progress of the idea, which aims at the exclusion of military establishments in time of peace.
It may possibly be asked, what need there could be of such a precaution, and whether it may not become a pretext for alterations in the State governments, without the concurrence of the States themselves.
But it may not be improper to take notice of an argument against this part of the Constitution, which has been drawn from the policy and practice of Great Britain.
May not a more compact and advantageous position turn the scale on the same side, against a superior number so situated as to be less capable of a prompt and collected exertion of its strength?
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