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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
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this. -- Confucius
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. -- George Muller
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
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. -- Democritus
Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life. -- Confucius
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. -- Samuel Smiles
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. -- Confucius
Fight to escape from your own cleverness. If you do, then you will find salvation and uprightness through Jesus Christ our Lord. -- John Climacus
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons. -- Khalil Gibran
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision -- Thomas Jefferson
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams. -- Henry David Thoreau
Man, as a spiritual being, cannot be maintained in strength, uprightness, and peace except if he periodically withdraw himself from the outer world of perishable things and reach inwardly towards the abiding and imperishable realities. -- James Allen
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. -- Aristophanes
For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright. -- Plato
What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all. Leave us, you thing of bane. We are made steadfast by the uprightness of His Cross. Serpent, we trample on your head. -- Seraphim of Sarov
God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not. -- John Ruskin
Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness. -- Confucius
Humility won't result in humiliation except it's void of truth and uprightness -- Constance Chuks Friday
In the life of earnest Christians who pursue and profess holiness, humility ought to be the chief mark of their uprightness. -- Andrew Murray
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God. -- Louis Farrakhan
Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge. -- Anne Catherine Emmerich
Before Allah nothing of our material existence impresses Allah. It is our righteousness and our uprightness alone that impresses God. -- Louis Farrakhan

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