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Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler. -- Henry David Thoreau
Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man. -- Plato
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share. -- Victor Hugo
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time. -- E. B. White
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue. -- John Hancock
"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward." -- Charles Spurgeon
Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.... -- Plato
And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea. -- Ayn Rand
The greatest victory for man is not that his dreams were fulfilled but it is that to stand upright even when none of his dreams were fulfilled! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
So upright Quakers please both man and God. -- Alexander Pope
A man should be upright, not be kept upright. -- Marcus Aurelius
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks. -- Confucius
What is it that distinguishes man from animals? It is not his upright posture. -- Erich Fromm
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation. -- Lily Tomlin
God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. -- Ovid
To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man. -- Kenzaburo Oe
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. -- Thomas Carlyle
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. -- Aeschylus
The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. -- Benjamin Franklin
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. -- Robert Burns
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads. -- Ayn Rand
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. -- Michel de Montaigne
Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright. -- Philemon
Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country -- Joseph Addison
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. -- Orison Swett Marden
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior. -- William Shenstone
St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families. -- Pope John Paul II
A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment? -- Djuna Barnes
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man. -- Richard Leakey
Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness ... -- Martha Finley

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