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Fall Quotes by William Cowper
- Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him…
- Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws…
- The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and…
- How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,…
- Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
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