#upon

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#emphatically #his #hope #man #other

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#cast #contribute #earth #gladness #heaven

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #brought #censure #god #happiness

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#afar #always #being #church #coming

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ↗

— Willa Cather

#build #his #person #security #upon

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#convictions #duty #entering #great #life

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#lead #our #upon #weight

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#agree #chastity #filth #i #old

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence