Set Upon Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. — Samuel Smiles
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of Englandâ€”I was going to play all the sweet roles.… — Ida Lupino
The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me. — John Donne
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
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
Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers. — Ida Lupino
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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