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How to use the word UPRIGHT in a Sentence? Page #2

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A respectable man like General Buhari, I'm sure he can win, he's upright, disciplined and against corruption.

– Femi Afolabi

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9 years ago

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

– Thomas à Kempis

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10 years ago

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

– Doris Lessing

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13 years ago

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

– Aesop

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13 years ago

The effect of one upright individual is incalculable.

– Oscar Arias

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13 years ago

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

– Alfred Adler

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13 years ago

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

– Daniel Webster

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14 years ago

All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

– Doris Lessing

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14 years ago

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.

– Benjamin Franklin

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14 years ago

To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.

– Victor Hugo

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14 years ago

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