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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct (Upon Quotes)
No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself (Upon Quotes)
But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would be so afflicted (Upon Quotes)
Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses... Grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves (Upon Quotes)
The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven (Upon Quotes)
The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety (Upon Quotes)
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society (Upon Quotes)
Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, fate, fortune, luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star (Upon Quotes)
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlying our hard hearts (Upon Quotes)
In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow men as a natural food (Upon Quotes)
We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements upon them to abound therein more and more (Upon Quotes)
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody (Upon Quotes)
As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly (Upon Quotes)
A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger (Upon Quotes)
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the Earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration (Upon Quotes)
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop (Upon Quotes)
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones (Upon Quotes)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship (Upon Quotes)
Except I be by Silvia in the night, there is no music in the nightingale; unless I look on Silvia in the day, there is no day for me to look upon (Upon Quotes)
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience (Upon Quotes)
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved (Upon Quotes)
I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix (Upon Quotes)
I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians (Upon Quotes)
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long (Upon Quotes)
But yet, I do not like but yet, it does allay the good precedence; fye upon but yet; but yet is as a gaoler to bring forth some monstrous malefactor (Upon Quotes)
Your honor call you hence; therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly, and all the gods go with you. Upon your sword sit laurel victory, and smooth success be strewed before your feet! (Upon Quotes)
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten (Upon Quotes)
You may as well forbid the sea for to obey the moon, as, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake the fabric of his folly, whose foundation is pil'd upon his faith (Upon Quotes)
O let us love our occupations, bless the squire and his relations, live upon our daily rations, and always know our proper stations (Upon Quotes)
She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a sylph (Upon Quotes)