I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead
She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.
A horse stumbles that hath foure legges. [A horse stumbles that has four legs. ]
Oft stumbles at a straw.
The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.
Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Many a man who might walk over burning ploughshares into heaven stumbles from the path because there is gravel in his shoes.
