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The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would (Upon Quotes)
Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way (Upon Quotes)
A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects (Upon Quotes)
An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person’s who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline (Upon Quotes)
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust (Upon Quotes)
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid (Upon Quotes)
All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them (Upon Quotes)
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world (Upon Quotes)
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy (Upon Quotes)
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast (Upon Quotes)
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it (Upon Quotes)
When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause (Upon Quotes)
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so closely do we identify these persons in our mind with the characters which they assume upon the stage (Upon Quotes)
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt (Upon Quotes)
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay (Upon Quotes)
As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them (Upon Quotes)
It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road (Upon Quotes)
Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land (Upon Quotes)
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue (Upon Quotes)
Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex (Upon Quotes)
The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness (Upon Quotes)
Nothing hath wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal (Upon Quotes)
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself (Upon Quotes)
Well, when you write about people of a certain age... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances (Upon Quotes)
Dexterity is one of the chief weapons of diplomacy; governments rely more upon the supremacy of this instrument, when in the hands of a skillful diplomatist, than in the soundness or justice of their claims (Upon Quotes)
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here (Upon Quotes)
A lawyer’s duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it (Upon Quotes)
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder (Upon Quotes)
If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing (Upon Quotes)
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after (Upon Quotes)