Arise
Arise verb - To move or extend upward.
Usage example: slowly the hot-air balloon arose, and the round-the-world flight was begun
Fall
Fall verb - To go to a lower level especially abruptly.
Usage example: word soon got out that the movie was no good, and box-office receipts fell like a rock
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Beezelbub gives one to the fallen angels just after the fall, concluding, "Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n." and they are abashed and stand.
Source: Rousing Speech - Death Knight Arthas: This kingdom will fall, and from its ashes shall arise a new order that will shake the very foundations of this world.
Source: World of Silence -
This makes it easy to link the two thematically: empires and great families can rise and fall, new nations can arise in the ashes of the old, etc.
Source: Bookends
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