We Cease Quotes
53 quotes by 46 authors
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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
— Norman Rockwell
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
— Madame de Stael
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There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building…
— Karl Popper
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that…
— Seneca the Younger
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And…
— Alcibiades
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his…
— Thomas Paine
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If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
— Ivan KlÃma
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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of…
— Richard Rorty
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
— Farley Mowat
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To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in…
— Charles de Foucauld
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To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we…
— Laozi
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"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as…
— Learned Hand
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Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder,…
— Bryce Courtenay
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only…
— Anais Nin
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult…
— William Hazlitt
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