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• You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.

  Wilhelm II

  Military, Home, Tree

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• Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Ghost. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught. They conceive truth to be something which they can grasp with the mind.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Self, Mind

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• He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

  Morris West

  Men, Errors, Reform

  Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”

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• To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

  Alan Watts

  Ego, Life Is, Inches

  "Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety".

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• All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

  H. L. Mencken

  Character, Political, Presidential

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• Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Past, Views

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Dwelling, Intellect

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Water, Willing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its arms outstretched, the druid wood Waits with its benedicite And to our age’s drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nature, Heart, Blood

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.117

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer young—that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Wine, Hair

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• The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning - first fallen flake of the coming snows of age - is a disagreeable thing.

  Alexander Smith

  Morning, Hair, Discovery

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

  Walter Lippmann

  Angel, Lost Ones, Devil

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Fall, Clothes

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Opposites, Obedience

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• I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

  Annie Dillard

  Age, Survivor, Fallen World

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.245, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Evening had fallen. A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of sky line, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand: and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.

  James Joyce

  Moon, Land, Sky

  James Joyce (2005). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.200, Collector's Library

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• Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

  Ben Jonson

  Age, Example, Youth

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.251, Manchester University Press

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• As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

  Clarence Day

  Angel, Done, Modesty

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.56, 1st World Publishing

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• The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Witty, Morning

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• It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Jesus, Son, Birth

  Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.590, Image

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• Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

  Jim Hightower

  Fall, Government, People

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• Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death

  Georges Brassens

  Death, Uprising, Age

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• The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

  David Lloyd George

  Aunt, Government, Political

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• If a dish doesn't turn out right, change the name and don't bat an eyelid. A fallen souffle is only a risen omelette. It depends on the self-confidence with which you present it.

  Lionel Blue

  Confidence, Names, Self

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