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be up

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Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. Billie Holiday

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion. Katie Melua

If you dip your arm into the picklepot let it be up to the elbow. Malawi Proverb

He that falls to-day may be up again to-morrow. Turkish Proverb

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