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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon  (Upon Quotes) It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly  (Upon Quotes) He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the gates of the grave shall never prevail upon him to do him mischief  (Upon Quotes) When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool  (Upon Quotes) It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies  (Upon Quotes) What I object to Scotch philosophers in general is, that they reason upon man as they would upon a divinity; they pursue truth without caring if it be useful truth  (Upon Quotes) An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table  (Upon Quotes) It is always considered as a piece of impertinence in England, if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinion at all upon important subjects  (Upon Quotes) The judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that  (Upon Quotes) What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; the critic spits on what is done, gives it a wipe - and all is gone  (Upon Quotes) Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures  (Upon Quotes) To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole  (Upon Quotes) In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others  (Upon Quotes) To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen  (Upon Quotes) Tho' doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in, yet truth upon the serpent's head shall trample. the cause of love shall win  (Upon Quotes) Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them  (Upon Quotes) Easier were it to hurl the rooted mountain from its base, than force the yoke of slavery upon men determin'd to be free  (Upon Quotes) One constant among the elements of 1914 - as of any era - was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true  (Upon Quotes) Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen  (Upon Quotes) The worldly hope men set their hearts upon turns ashes - or it prospers; and anon, like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a little hour or two - is gone  (Upon Quotes) And this reviving herb whose tender green fledges the river - lip on which we lean - ah, lean upon it lightly! For who knows from what once lovely lip it springs unseen!  (Upon Quotes) Would you that spangle of existence spend about the secret - quick about it, friend! A hair perhaps divides the false and true - and upon what, prithee, may life depend?  (Upon Quotes) The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature  (Upon Quotes) Ill nature consists of a proneness to do ill turns, attended with a secret joy upon the sight of any mischief that befalls another  (Upon Quotes) The herb feeds upon the juice of a good soil, and drinks in the dew of heaven as eagerly, and thrives by it as effectually, as the stalled ox that tastes everything that he eats or drinks  (Upon Quotes) No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it  (Upon Quotes) There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony  (Upon Quotes) Under my head till morning; but the rain, is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, upon the glass and listen for reply  (Upon Quotes) Though reason is not to be relied upon as universally sufficient to direct us what to do, yet it is generally to be relied upon and obeyed where it tells us what we are not to do  (Upon Quotes) The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine  (Upon Quotes)
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