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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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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.
Politics and the English Language (1945) -
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
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Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
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All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting.
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
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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.
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