Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Fall Quotes, Autumn Quotes

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Fall Quotes , Ambition Quotes

Other sound than the owl's voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

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...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Horse Quotes , Fall Quotes

The lofty pine is most easily brought low by the force of the wind, and the higher the tower the greater the fall thereof.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Wind Quotes

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Fall Quotes

With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive--or even boring.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Life Quotes , Fall Quotes

If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , War Quotes , Fall Quotes

God will speak to the hearts of those who prepare themselves to hear; and conversely, those who do not so prepare themselves will hear nothing even though the Word of God is falling upon their outer ears every Sunday.

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Tags : Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes , Fall Quotes , Heart Quotes

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Fall Quotes , Science Quotes

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls.

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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Flower Quotes , Fall Quotes

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fall Quotes , World Quotes

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Fall Quotes

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Horse Quotes , Fall Quotes

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dogma Quotes