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Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.
In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.
He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.
With success comes a lot of failure, and it doesn't matter how many times you fall it just depends on how you get up and keep succeeding.
The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.
The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.
You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.
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.
How we fall into grace. You can't work or earn your way into it. You just fall. It lies below, it lies beyond. It comes to you, unbidden.
Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.
Go big or go home. You can either stand for what you believe or fall for what you don't. Above all, make a choice for tolerance and love.
Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line.
You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
And if you voz to see my roziz As is a boon to all men's noziz, - You'd fall upon your back and scream - '" Lawk! O criky! it's a dream!"
When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter.
One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep.
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
I don't need any drug to show me Heaven And I sure know how to spend plenty of time cleaning Hell But I'm missin' that feeling of falling.
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.
More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.
It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.
The political power of the Country must fall eventually into the hands of certain great families as it always has done in other republics.
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
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.
I don't fall into the physical manifestation of a man of letters. So I guess people assume the scripts are delivered to me under the door.
Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)
The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.
Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, A full-hatched beauty seems to nest Nor snow, which falling from the sky Hovers in its virginity.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
Don't blame you," said Marvin and counted five hundred and ninety-seven thousand million sheep before falling asleep again a second later.
Therefore, when you enter into anything, as a frightened being, that contract you make with another person out of fear, has to fall apart.
What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
You may see all that is around you But you may feel nothing at all. So try and close your eyes so tight And listen to the night time fall.
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.