#upright

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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.


George Henry Lewes


#books #delight #guidance #knowledge #minister

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.


Branch Rickey


#anything #because #children #civil #closest

I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos.


Shia LaBeouf


#cute #human #i #i think #like

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.


Valerie Simpson


#both #child #could #ear #fool

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.


Charlotte Brontë


#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.


Cy Coleman


#behind #could #get #got #huge

If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it.


Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak


#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.


Aeschylus


#gods #man #mark #misfortune #rail

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.


Aesop


#bending #force #had #little #over

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!


Dante Alighieri


#conscience #fault #how #little #sting