Set Upon Quotes
37 quotes by 34 authors
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
— Samuel Smiles
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The right procedure: You begin at the wrong end if you first dispute about your election. Prove your conversion, and then never doubt your election.…
— Joseph Alleine
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He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in…
— Peter Chrysologus
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The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him…
— William Graham Sumner
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A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling…
— Confucius
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
— Samuel Johnson
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My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles.…
— Ida Lupino
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The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me.
— John Donne
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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered…
— William Butler Yeats
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He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
— Alexander MacLaren
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
— Ida Lupino
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Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity protects…
— Greg Kramer
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The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;…
— Josef Pieper
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Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
— Samuel Johnson
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And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in…
— William Shakespeare
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Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can…
— Walter Lippmann
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
— Epictetus
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