“As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.” FallBoysDangerDutySpeedPostsWorldlyPillarsFixing Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120 Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120
“To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches that the intellect should be distrusted and that it should be subservient to faith, will inevitably fall.” MenShouldFallReligiousTeachAtheismDutyTruth IsIntellectPositive AtheismSubservient Book:The Martyrdom of Man Source: The Martyrdom of Man
“Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end. [Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]” EndsLawFallDutyDischargeMagistrates Author:Tacitus
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.” ThinkingWorldLittlesLife IsOrderFallCultureReadingChristChurchActingSonDutyHigherCreaturesEssentialsDown AndClubsImprovementLiftsBordersMutualMistakenMajestyFalling DownFreemanChurch Of ChristChaucerSpenser Author:Edward Everett Hale
“The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.” MenWorldFallTakenObjectsDutyLessonsGods WillChecksRisingPerpetualInward Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.” FallPolicyDutyDecentLapSympathetic Author:Rene Balcer
“It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.” KnowsEndsDoneAmericaFallLandDutyWeaponsIndependenceWestMonstersCubaHereafterWest IndiesSlingshots Author:Jose Marti
“The duty I owe to the slave, to truth, and to God, demands that I should use my pen and tongue so long as life and health are vouchsafed to me to employ them, or until the last chain shall fall from the limbs of the last slave in America and the world.” WorldShouldLongUseLastsAmericaFallDutyDemandSlaveTongueChainsPensLimbs Author:William Wells Brown