“ I charge thee, fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ”
- Jane Taylor- Copy
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“ And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. ”
- William Bradford- Copy
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“ There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. ”
- William Ernest Henley- Copy
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“ Many strokes, though with a little axe,Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ”
- Anthony Powell- Copy
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“ Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation,But many a worm had pierced the foundation. ”
- William Allingham- Copy
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“ Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ She got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. on Eleanor Roosevelt. ”
- Ralph McGill- Copy
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“ If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
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“ Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. ”
- Sir Samuel Garth- Copy
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“ We fell probably one player short. I'll take responsibility for that. Sometimes with timing and the way you set things up.... sometimes you guess wrong. ”
- John Lilly- Copy
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“ When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
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“ Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains. ”
- Hannah More- Copy
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“ There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me. ”
- Agnetha Faltskog- Copy
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“ O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ”
- Barbara Tuchman- Copy
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“ Come, see the north-wind's masonry.Out of an unseen quarry evermoreFurnished with tile, the fierce artificerCurves his white bastions with projected roofRound every windward stake, or tree, or door.Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild workSo fanciful, so savage, naught cares heFor number or proportion. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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