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Fall Quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Success consists of getting up one more time than you fall." | Oliver Goldsmith |
| "What is not started today is never finished tomorrow." | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." | Mahatma Gandhi |
| "One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it." | Persian Proverb |
| "Time and tide wait for no man." | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| "It is a painful thing To look at your own trouble and know That you yourself and no one else has made it." | Sophocles, Ajax |
| "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." | Lord Ashton |
| "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." | William Shakespeare, Macbeth |
| "To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time." | William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth |
| "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." | William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth |
| "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;... Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." | John Donne, "Meditations" |
| "The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." | John Milton, Paradise Lost |
| "Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study." | Sir Francis Bacon |
| "To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die." | Ecclesiastes, the Bible |
| "The best laid schemes of mice and men Oft go astray, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy." | Robert Burns, "To a Mouse" |
| "To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour." | William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence" |
| "I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts." | Lord Byron |
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