Upon Quotes
10257 quotes by 4366 authors
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It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing, described from opposite…
— Unknown Author
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before…
— Leonard Cohen
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
— James Russell Lowell
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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances…
— Thomas Gray
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May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we…
— Richard L. Evans
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Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge…
— Khalil Gibran
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A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal…
— Unknown Author
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It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am…
— Henry D. Taylor
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The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life…
— Elaine A. Cannon
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they…
— Edmund Waller
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Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.
— Therese of Lisieux
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A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of…
— Adolf Hitler
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Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists…
— James R Newman
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand…
— Carl Jung
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The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom…
— St. Jerome
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Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and…
— Jack Miles
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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call…
— John Foley
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