Falls Upon Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
— Saint Basil
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The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
— W G Sebald
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Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is…
— R. S. Thomas
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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of…
— George Orwell
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[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected…
— Saint Basil
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Rain which falls upon the sea is useless; so is food for one who is satiated; in vain is a gift for one who is…
— Chanakya
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Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound,…
— Samuel Laman Blanchard
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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be…
— Nelson Mandela
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The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I…
— Mark Twain
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Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to…
— H. Rider Haggard
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other…
— Joseph Addison
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Work to connect yourself to the allness of life -- instead of identifying with the smallness of it -- and you'll awaken to a greatness…
— Guy Finley
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Love, like a tear, rises in the eye and falls upon the breast.
— Publilius Syrus
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Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
— John Selden
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I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you…
— Richard Cobden
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Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's…
— Cormac McCarthy
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