Fall Quotes - Page 9

• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

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• The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

  Shana Alexander

  Love, Crush, I Like You

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

  Bertolt Brecht

  People, Faces, Aging

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

  Bob Marley

  Music, People, Smoking Weed

  "Net Surf", www.wired.com. December 1, 1995.

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• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Sin, Virtue

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

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• Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Falling Apart, Things Fall Apart Important

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Wise men say only fools rush in. But I can't help falling in love with you.

  Elvis Presley

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

  Song: Can't Help Falling in Love

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• Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.

  Adelaide Crapsey

  Tree, Listening, Frost

  Adelaide Crapsey, “November Night”

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• I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer dawns. The feathery leaves of yarrow are thick with silver rime and dry thistle heads rise like goblets plated with silver catching the sun.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Summer, Autumn, Climbing

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• Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Fruit, Lessons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.80, Harvard University Press

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• If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

  Johannes Tauler

  Return, Turn To God, Seventies

  Johannes Tauler (1985). “Johannes Tauler, Sermons”, p.166, Paulist Press

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• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  Ben Harper

  Ifs

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• O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Heart, Autumn, Frost

  James Whitcomb Riley (1895). “The Days Gone by and Other Poems”

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• God is mighty. God is caring. God is worthy of praise. God is loving. God is able. God is in control. Nothing takes God by surprise. Some sweet reminders to soak in before falling asleep tonight.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Sweet, Caring, Able

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 04, 2015

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• He that is down needs fear no fall.

  John Bunyan

  Inspirational, Fear, Failure

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 'Shepherd Boy's Song'

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• "A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."

  Woodrow Wyatt

  Life, Funny Love, Falling In Love

  To the Point (1981) p. 107

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• Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Men, Offers

  Hal Borland (1969). “Homeland: A Report from the Country”

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• Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

  John Updike

  Life, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Fear, Failure

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winter, Ideas, Mind

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Sorrows of Young Werther”, p.16, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mistake, Men, Failing

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• My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

  George Burns

  Falling In Love, Motivation, Work

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• But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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  Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher

  "New York Post" Newspaper, June 24, 1965.

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• To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

  Philip Massinger

  Doubt, Despair, Misery

  Philip Massinger (1816). “The Duke of Milan: A Tragedy in Five Acts”, p.10

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