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Source: Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind

“The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.”

Fall Depression Exhausted Undertakings Fall Back

Author:Mason Cooley

“Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.”

People Fall Literature Voice Crazy Live By Legends Inner Voice Clearness Different Voices

Author:Jim Harrison

“Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.”

Fall More Time Falling Down

Author:Julie Bowen

“In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.”

Firsts Fall Speak Sight Response Falling In Love Revelations Flash Lightning

Book:Disgrâce

Source: Disgrâce

“if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.”

Ifs May Fall Principles Gullibility Stand For Something

Author:Irene Dunne

“Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.”

Needs Body Fall Language Perpetual Flux Recruit

Author:Tom Felton

“One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

Fall Lows Expectations Bigotry Low Expectations

Author:Gerald Chertavian

“Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick or lava in courses, and then bind them to the fronts by means of iron clamps and lead. The beds and builds, all settling equally and bonded at the joints, will not let the work bulge out, nor allow the fall of the face walls which have been tightly fastened together.”

Mean Has Beens Made Two Together Faces Fall Courses Behinds Feet Fronts Wall Bed Red Stones Settling Dimensions Iron Thick Bricks Joints Lava

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.”

Suffering Fall Essentials Elements Fall Back Annihilation Dissolution

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.”

Fall Cases Pride Conceit Kissinger Henry Kissinger

Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

“It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.”

Men World Mind Light Lasts Fall Heard Civilization Gay

Author:Herbert Read

“I seek the spread of freedom and democracy in the way that satisfies God. They [Americans] have planned and paved the ways for a long time, but it is God who is the real planner - and the proof of this is the fall of the American twin towers [...] a miracle from God.”

Way Long Real Fall Democracy Long Time Miracle Spread Proof Twins Towers Planners Twin Towers

Author:Muqtada al Sadr

“[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.”

“I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Humanity Fall Found Women Religious Loss Ability Involved Be Kind Fabric Domination Falling Apart Subordinates Embedded Patronizing

Author:William P. Young

“The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.”

People Together Joy Humanity Fall Party Conversation Illusion Distraction Love Each Other Strangeness Newness Mirages

Book:Pilgrimage

Source: Pilgrimage

“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”

Ifs Whole Lasts Fall Failing Chains Links

Author:Chris Pratt

“If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?”

Ifs Men Way Art Feelings Fall Courses Enjoy Natural Pay Advantage Perfection Superiors Imperfection Refinement

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.”

Ifs Love Dies Fall Periods Fruit Maturity Precise Neglected

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”

Long Running Night Fall Darkness Cold Shapes Rivers Crosses Slavery Terror Hunters Blackness Hounds Lanterns Beckoning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.”

Mind Believe Fall Talent Including Communist Quacks

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.”

Fall Break Pieces Anger Victim Ruins

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.”

Mind Philosophy Fall Fortune Arrows Invincible

Author:Seneca the Younger

“It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.”

Knows Hands Spirit Fall Born Danger Approach Extremes Accomplish Giants Hollow Puppets Accomplish Nothing

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.”

Real Action Moving Fall Found Water Sweet Pure Firm Spinning Bicycle Harmonious Stagnation Flowing Water Spinning Tops

Author:Anna Brackett

“For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.”

Men Fall Virtue Crime Credit Misfortunes

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.”

Wells Soul Body Seems Fall Passion Danger Ill Secure Infection Precarious

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.”

Kind May Littles Fall Company Fortune Bounds Casts Determine Saved Ruins Engaged Gambling Confession Exceed Gaming Tacit

Book:Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work

Source: Commentaries on the laws of England: in four books ; with an analysis of the work

“I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.”

Men Mind Believe Form Fall I Believe Differences Ideals Appearance Manners Reasonable Exterior Authorship Physical Appearance Reasonable Man

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.”

Children Eye Lasts Film Death Mother Fall Loses Arms Aspect Clay Bosoms Spectre

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.”

Years Children School Fall Cities Summer Shoes Woods Shops Wild Child

Author:Margaret Atwood

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

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