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“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

May Book Use Pleasure Knowledge Study Conversation Draws Method Notion Engaged Charm Multitudes Invitations Couches Comprehension Sloth Rectify

Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

“Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.”

Men Firsts May Space Hips Charm

Author:Alexei Sayle

“The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.”

May Lying Adventure Discovery Charm Anticipation Woodland

Author:Dale Rex Coman

“May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.”

Giving May Hours Flower Green Queens Charm Fulfilling Pipe Heed Reeds Mead May Day Spring May

Author:Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

“God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.”

May Matter Gone Mankind Comfort Promise Worship Mass Creator Indifference Charm Savior

Book:William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution

Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller