Cease Quotes

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Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. — Jane Austen
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran
A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union… — Abraham Lincoln
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of… — Jane Austen
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken
Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and… — Eugene Ionesco
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a… — Paulo Freire
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to… — George Washington
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If I stopped loving Him, I would cease to believe in His love. If I loved God, then I would believe in His love for… — Graham Greene
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on… — Virginia Woolf
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a… — William Hazlitt
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt… — Henry Miller
I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand. — William Blake

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