Gautama Buddha Quotes, Fall Quotes, Men Quotes

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Rain Quotes , Fall Quotes

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.

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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fall Quotes , Heart Quotes

May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , War Quotes , Fall Quotes

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fall Quotes , World Quotes

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Fall Quotes , Grief Quotes

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fall Quotes , Fall Back Quotes

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo. (The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.)

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Fall Quotes , Stones Quotes

For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fall Quotes , Virtue Quotes

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fall Quotes , Church Quotes

Honestly, that is the most important thing to me: Can I continue to live up to my own expectations of myself - and not fall back into slacking?

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Fall Quotes , Expectations Quotes

Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.

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Tags : Abby Sunderland Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sea Quotes

Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'.

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Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , Fall Quotes , Pride 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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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fall Quotes , Passion Quotes

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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

Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Fall Quotes , Heart Quotes

Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fall Quotes , Essence Quotes