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Fall Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.
- The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid…
- In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an…
- Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to…
- Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
- The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the…
- Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
- Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the…
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- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
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- 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