Befall Quotes
112 quotes by 100 authors
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall…
— William Blake
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No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind…
— Tom O'Connor
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails…
— Joseph Addison
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Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting…
— John Flavel
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Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to…
— Andrew Gamble
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Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.
— Margaret Widdemer
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Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and…
— Paul Hawken
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken…
— Paul Elmer More
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I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than…
— Nicholas Grimald
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Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.…
— George Washington
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Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
— Gautama Buddha
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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who Wrote These Befall Quotes
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