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«I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.»
«Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.»
Author: Felix Adler | Keywords: ceaseless, engaged, ethical, upward
«Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.»
Author: Andre Gide | Keywords: bellied, bellies, belly, fish, surface, upward
«Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.»
«In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: upward
«. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.»
«I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach»
«God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars»
«By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.»
«Each one of you has struggled upward from the stone to a plant, From the plant to an animal, From the animal to a man,Do not slide into an animal.»

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