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- Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit… — Rebecca West
- Well, every man has a religion; has something in heaven or earth which he will give up everything else for - something… — Walt Whitman
- Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed… — Charles Thom
- Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation. .… — Bernard Baruch
- The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their… — Pliny the Elder
- I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn’t be rushed or seized upon but allowed… — Daniel Tammet
- Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its… — Isabella Bird
- A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the… — Fernando Pessoa