Haply Quotes

#1. The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life were conterminant, you are quietly taking your passage, cheek by cheek (O ignoble levelling of Death) with the shade of some recently departed candle-snuffer.

Charles Lamb

#2. What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

Charles Lamb

#4. He that is ambitious for his son, should give him untried names,
For those have serv'd other men, haply may injure by their evils;
Or otherwise may hinder by their glories; therefore set him by himself,
To win for his individual name some clear praise.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#5. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

William Shakespeare

#6. I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

Robert Browning

#7. Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City ...

Baha'u'llah

#8. Where joyous full of faith, spreading white sails, She cleaves the ether mid the sparkle and the foam of day, or under many a star at night, By sailors young and old haply will I, a reminiscence of the land, be read,

Walt Whitman

#9. I leave you but the sound of many a word In mocking echoes haply overheard, I sang to heaven. My exile made me free, from world to world, from all worlds carried me.

George Santayana

#10. Beware, therefore, lest thou strive too earnestly after some desire which thou hast conceived, without taking counsel of Me; lest haply it repent thee afterwards, and that displease thee which before pleased, and for which thou didst long as for a great good.

Thomas A Kempis

#11. And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.
So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.

Emily Bronte

#12. Friends of my youth, a last adieu! Haply some day we meet again:
Ye ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.

Richard Francis Burton

#13. I have thrust myself into this maze,
Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

William Shakespeare

#14. Haply a woman's voice may do some good
When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

William Shakespeare

#15. As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.

Lewis Hallam

#16. I must not quarrel with the will
Of highest dispensation, which herein,
Haply had ends above my reach to know.

John Milton

#17. Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Hartley Coleridge

#18. And now, Though haply mellow'd by correcting time, I thank thee, Heaven! that the bereaving world Hath not diminish'd the subliming hopes Of youth, in manhood's more imposing cares ...

Robert Montgomery

#19. Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

Magha

#20. Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow ...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#21. If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.

Annie Dillard

#22. When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

Plautus

#23. Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The Universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe.

Anita Moorjani

#24. With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

Charles R. Swindoll

#25. I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

Ray Toro

#26. Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. We are at the point in time and terror where nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger which is crystal clear and perilously present. Let us take the guns away from the people.

Patrick V. Murphy

#28. Our premise is there are going to be a lot of winners. It's not winner take all. Other people do not have to lose for us to win.

Jeff Bezos