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136 quotesTo endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Vulgarity
Alexander Pope
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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
Men
Cole Porter
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Zeal
Pasquier Quesnel
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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Happiness
Jean Paul Richter
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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Action
Carl Rowan
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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Illusion
Bertrand Russell
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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
Faith
Samuel Rutherford
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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
Dedication
Samuel Rutherford
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Mystery
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
Infatuation
William Shakespeare
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Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?
Cost
William Shakespeare
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The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
The future
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Don't stand shivering upon the bank; plunge in at once, and have it over.
Indecision
Sam Slick
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
Labor
Samuel Smiles
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Oceans
Alexander Smith
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How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Appearance
Robert Southey
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
Uncategorised
Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.
Thoughts and Thinking
Bishop Steere
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Solitude
Laurence Sterne
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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.
Vocabulary
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman -- not the attitude of the prospect.
Sales
W. Clement Stone
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No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.
Revenge
Mary Stuart
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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Society
Rabindranath Tagore
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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.
Money
Source Unknown
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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Fame
Gloria Vanderbilt
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun