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Fall Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with…
- He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his…
- There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that…
- Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to…
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- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
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- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. — Francis Bacon