Aeschylus Quotes, Fall Quotes, Pride 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

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fall Quotes , Mean Quotes

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fall Quotes , Humble Quotes

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Running Quotes , Fall Quotes

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Fall Quotes

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

You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.

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Tags : Alan Sillitoe Quotes , Moving Quotes , Fall Quotes

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

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

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Betrayal Quotes , Fall Quotes

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Book Quotes , Fall 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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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Fall Quotes , Men Quotes

The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Travel Quotes , Fall Quotes

I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Running Quotes , Fall Quotes

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

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

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Fall Quotes , School Quotes

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Fall Quotes

Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word 'religion' comes from a root which means binding together - falling into love, becoming one.

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Tags : Rajneesh Quotes , Fall Quotes , Mean Quotes

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Life 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