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We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy  (Upon Quotes) If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse  (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) A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament  (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) True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander  (Upon Quotes) Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres  (Upon Quotes) I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness  (Upon Quotes) Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever  (Upon Quotes) I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn  (Upon Quotes) Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else  (Upon Quotes) The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts  (Upon Quotes) Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery  (Upon Quotes) There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it  (Upon Quotes) For friends... Do but look upon good books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble  (Upon Quotes) Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you  (Upon Quotes) If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr  (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) Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind  (Upon Quotes) The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors  (Upon Quotes) The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave  (Upon Quotes) We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know  (Upon Quotes) Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends  (Upon Quotes) It seems to me as if not only the form, but the soul of man was made to walk erect, and look upon the stars  (Upon Quotes) It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries  (Upon Quotes) As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother  (Upon Quotes) Happiness and virtue react upon each other, the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best  (Upon Quotes) The Wise (Minstrel or Sage, ) out of their books are clay; but in their books, as from their graves they rise. Angels - that, side by side, upon our way, walk with and warn us!  (Upon Quotes) And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like baldness or testicular carcinoma, but sometimes on the very same day  (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)
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