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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the… — Anzia Yezierska
Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. — Charles Horton Cooley
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what… — George Santayana
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains?… — Agnes Repplier
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents… — Margaret Sanger
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions… — Simon Newcomb
St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving… — Alphonsus Liguori
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students… — George Wald
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you… — Swami Vivekananda
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back… — Woodrow Wilson
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use… — Thomas Dreier
The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history. — Roy DeCarava
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you are gravelled for… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,… — Edward Everett
You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay. — Murasaki Shikibu
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. — Guillermo del Toro

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