Socrates
Philosopher
"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen."
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Fallen
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace."
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?"
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"Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair."
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"It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man."
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"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
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"God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known."
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"Not all that have fallen are vanquished."
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"In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes the situation more accurately to say that I was 'looked after."
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"Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful."
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"I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita."
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"We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with."
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"I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel."
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"When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again."
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"Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength."
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"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!"
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"Smells are the fallen angels of the senses."
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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."
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"Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded."
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"I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home."
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"A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea."
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"The mouse had fallen in with evil cats."
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"The dew has fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning."
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