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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
Unity
Alexander The Great

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Anger
Maya Angelou

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness
Aristotle

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Death and Dying
Matthew Arnold

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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Army and Navy
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Nature
Jane Austen

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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon

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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
Magic
Walter Bagehot

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Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
Desire
James Baldwin

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Originality
Charles Baudelaire

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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Family
Henry Ward Beecher

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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Influence
Henry Ward Beecher

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Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Fathers
Bible

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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.
Faith
Bible

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Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
Uncategorised
Bible

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Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]
Anger
Bible

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Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.
Salvation
Bible

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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Nuns
Ambrose Bierce

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Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
Physicians
Ambrose Bierce

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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Respectability
Napoleon Bonaparte

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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Writers and Writing
Catherine Drinker Bowen

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The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Responsibility
Harry Browne

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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
Heresy
Giordano Bruno

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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Debt
Pearl S. Buck

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
Giving
John Bunyan

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun