When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
We may propose many plans, let's but remember that God can dispose our plans, propose a new and better ones and impose them on us!
Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time to come for ever and ever. Isiah 30:8
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
Follow your heart as long as you live...Bring your whole heart towards excellence...And no limit may be set to art.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..
We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
Sometimes it's literally just a feeling that you get that somebody is more interested than someone else; and they may both say they're interested, but you get a feeling.
Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.
The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.
