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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one… — Swami Vivekananda
There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as… — Swami Vivekananda
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections — Joseph Addison
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the… — Albert Schweitzer
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents… — Margaret Sanger
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually… — Rumi
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. — Sidney Lanier
Though we can't always see it at the time, if we look upon events with some perspective, we see things always happen for our best… — Swami Satchidananda
Security and contentment can come only through interdependence of every man upon every other man. — Walter Russell
When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest… — William Butler Yeats
True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love. — Christian D. Larson
...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon… — Stephen Batchelor
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. — Steven Pressfield
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still… — Euripides
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart.... — Euripides
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down… — Homer
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself… — Abraham Lincoln
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the… — John Flavel

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