"When earth as if on evil dreams Looks……" — John Greenleaf Whittier

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• Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as… — Anzia Yezierska
• Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God. — Charles Horton Cooley
• Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this… — George Santayana
• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with… — Agnes Repplier
• As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next.… — Margaret Sanger
• As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person,… — Simon Newcomb
• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of… — Alphonsus Liguori
• There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals… — George Wald
• Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your… — Swami Vivekananda
• Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of… — P T Barnum
• No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm… — Woodrow Wilson
• Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade

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