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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Moderation
Horace

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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Economy and Economics
Horace

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A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.
Environment
L. Ron Hubbard

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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Labor
Robert Green Ingersoll

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
Faith
William James

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson

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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
Epitaphs
Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Knowledge
Carl Jung

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He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
Opinions
Klopstock

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Security
Joseph Wood Krutch

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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
Magic
George Henry Lewes

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
Corruption
John Lyly

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We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
Liberty
James Madison

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
Evil
Joseph De Maistre

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I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Cooperation
Lone Man

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Past
Marcus Valerius Martial

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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
Association
W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Happiness
Alice Meynell

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Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Chaos
Henry Miller

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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
Decay
Henry Miller

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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
Wives
Thomas Moore

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Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.
Passion
William Penn

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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Happiness
Samuel Pepys

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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Anger
Plato

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