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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Scandal
Edmund Burke

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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
Nations
Edmund Burke

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Life and Living
Lord Byron

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Self-love
Lord Byron

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Society is founded upon cloth.
Fashion
Thomas Carlyle

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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Independence
Willa Cather

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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Enemies
Oswald Chambers

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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Illusion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
Lord Chesterfield

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Courage
Winston Churchill

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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
Dictators and Dictatorship
Winston Churchill

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Mind
E. M. Cioran

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
Honor
Charles Caleb Colton

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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Fate
Confucius

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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Self-talk
Confucius

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Marriage
William Congreve

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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Gossip
William Congreve

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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
Devil
William Cowper

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Politicians and Politics
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings

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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Authority
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Greatness
Frank Dane

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The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Language
Henri Delacroix

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We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
Credulity
Madame Dorothe Deluzy

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Fame
Emily Dickinson

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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Maxim
Denis Diderot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun