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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
too-late path late
It is not too late to take another path. David Suzuki
too-late attention stories
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
too-late late knows
Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know. Bernhard Schlink
too-late late
It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now Edith Wharton
too-late never-too-late late
It's never too late for those whose time has come. Bertolt Brecht
too-late realizing terrible
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late. Edna Ferber
too-late left one-thing
There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late... Avril Lavigne
too-late sometimes late
Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late. Daniel Handler
too-late late
Very early in my life it was already too late. Elizabeth Wurtzel
later-in-life life-is-hard trying
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. Bryan Adams
late middle rounds spend standpoint time
We are going to spend as much time on the middle and late rounds as we do on the first-round guys. From our standpoint there is really not a lot of difference. Kevin Colbert
late turning
We started getting a sense that things were turning around in late 1998.
later-in-life handsome
As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome. Mark Cuban
later-in-life fame
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life. Bill Nighy
later school
When he got to the school, they would not let him in and he was later told Christopher had been shot.
late needed shots
We're getting there. Late in the game, when we needed shots and we needed stops, they were there. Richard Jefferson
later line list sit year
We're going to sit down later this year and come up with a list of the (water line problems) we know about that we just haven't done anything on.
late seeing unusual
What we're seeing right now this late in the year, it's unusual but not unprecedented.