I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.
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Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.
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Life is like a bicycle you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
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If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything.
Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.
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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.
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I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
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I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
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Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice re- viewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turn-ed aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What haveI left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
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