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The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not… — Joshua L. Liebman
Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back — Richard Thompson
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
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
Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair,… — Ban Ki-moon
Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. — Stuart Wilde
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him. — Confucius
A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty. — Mary Wortley Montagu
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
He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes… — Rabindranath Tagore
Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour… — John Burroughs
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. — John Milton
Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius. — Cyril Connolly
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. — Alexander Smith
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A Fox entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head.… — Aesop

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