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The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done… — Theodore Roosevelt
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back… — Bayard Taylor
When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars,… — John Greenleaf Whittier
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. — Khalil Gibran
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and… — Charles Horton Cooley
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done… — Henry Drummond
When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain… — Joyce Carol Oates
She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and… — Louis Bromfield
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way… — George Eliot
Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his… — Claudia Gray
From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him… — Charles Baudelaire
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to… — Holly Black
Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn… — Jack London
And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we… — Charles Spurgeon
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals… — Cormac McCarthy
I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the… — Edgar Allan Poe
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. — Mira Grant
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon… — W. Somerset Maugham

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