Cease Quotes
896 quotes by 641 authors
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Man is a machine, but a very peculiar machine. He is a machine which, in right circumstances, and with right treatment, can know that he…
— P D Ouspensky
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...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand,…
— Albert Camus
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To cease to think creatively is to cease to live
— Benjamin Franklin
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Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and…
— Susanna Clarke
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.
— Patricia Briggs
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America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
— Henry James
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even…
— Frederick Buechner
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.
— C.S. Lewis
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Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is…
— Aldo Leopold
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Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as…
— Emily Dickinson
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Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that be being rich is not the ideal condition that…
— Og Mandino
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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
— Leo Tolstoy
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing,…
— Mark Twain
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Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a…
— Aldous Huxley
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