Lord Byron Quotes, Fall Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

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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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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

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'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

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

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If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.

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In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Fall Quotes

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

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

A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

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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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Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

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Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

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When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Fall Quotes , Expression Quotes

NEWTONIAN, Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

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