#upon

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#invisible #lover #muses #object #our

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#essential #every #make #move #operations

We are anthill men upon an anthill world. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#upon #world

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#difficult #gradually #me #more #mother

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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