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Fall Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the…
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most…
- As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
- But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
- New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
- I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
- We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the…
- Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a…
- Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then…
- The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any…
- In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
- I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to…
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,…
- Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
- Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of…
More Fall Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or… — Mary Kay Ash
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head,… — Lauren Bacall
- 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