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But he said, in substance, to himself that if the Earth and Moon were about to clash, many persons would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision  (Upon Quotes) The sum of the past days fell upon me and the soft rumble of the engine invited sleep, but I willed myself to stay awake. It wasn't every day I was on Oprah's private jet  (Upon Quotes) To point out nonepistemic motives in another's view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person's connection to the world as it is  (Upon Quotes) He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart  (Upon Quotes) Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment  (Upon Quotes) To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace  (Upon Quotes) He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart  (Upon Quotes) If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon. And growth and opportunity consequences attend either road  (Upon Quotes) When they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed  (Upon Quotes) And those modes of defence are alone good, certain and lasting, which depend upon yourself and your own worth  (Upon Quotes) I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils  (Upon Quotes) Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy  (Upon Quotes) Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad  (Upon Quotes) Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink  (Upon Quotes) They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods  (Upon Quotes) Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her  (Upon Quotes) To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living  (Upon Quotes) ... The evil spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon  (Upon Quotes) The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control  (Upon Quotes) The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he felt put upon  (Upon Quotes) Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination  (Upon Quotes) One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word  (Upon Quotes) Ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror  (Upon Quotes) Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger  (Upon Quotes) Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?  (Upon Quotes) God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm  (Upon Quotes) The facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had once upon a time been juicy with sap and alive in the sun  (Upon Quotes) Oh! for a closer walk with god, a calm and heav'nly frame; a light to shine upon the road that leads me to the lamb  (Upon Quotes) I pity bashful men, who feel the pain of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, and bear the marks upon a blushing face, of needless shame, and self imposed disgrace  (Upon Quotes) Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul  (Upon Quotes)
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