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• Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Deceiving, Lost, Charlatans

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

  P. D. James

  Dying, Remember, Nations

  P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• The tragedy of loss is not that we grieve, but that we cease to grieve, and then perhaps the dead are dead at last.

  P. D. James

  Loss, Grieving, Tragedy

  P. D. James (2008). “Original Sin”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Father, Son, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4816, Delphi Classics

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• I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

  Anton Chekhov

  Marriage, People, Curiosity

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• The night comes on that knows not morn,
  When I shall cease to be all alone,
  To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Night, And Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.283, Delphi Classics

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• History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.

  Ludwig Borne

  Funny, Sarcasm, Vices

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• My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Believe, Fighting

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

  Ellen Key

  Mother, Women, Home

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• Many great persons have been of opinion that love is no other thing than complacency itself, in which they have had much appearance of reason. For not only does the movement of love take its origin from the complacency which the heart feels at the first approach of good, and find its end in a second complacency which returns to the heart by union with the thing beloved--but further, it depends for its preservation on this complacency, and can only subsist through it as through its mother and nurse; so that as soon as the complacency ceases, love ceases.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Love, Mother, Heart

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.

  Philip Sidney

  Reason, Shows, Reasonable

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• this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

  Alan Watts

  Time, Mind, Moments

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.56, New World Library

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• There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

  William Gibson

  Media, Gestalt, May

  "Panther Modern'S Eyes". williamgibsonblog.blogspot.ru. October 31, 2004.

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• Whatever we really are, that let us be, in all fearlessness. Whatever we are not, that let us cease striving to be.

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

  Strive, Fearlessness

  Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay (1803). “What is Worth While?”, p.8

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• We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ideas, Realizing, Forgotten

  D.T. Suzuki (2014). “Manual of Zen Buddhism”, p.118, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

  Amelia Barr

  Thinking, Shining, Sun

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.200, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Christian, Ungrateful, Vices

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• First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Pressure Groups, Political, Research

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.3, Verso

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Life and hope must cease together.

  Anne Bronte

  Together

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have to cease the migration of Arab potential to the west; they should be respected in their own countries.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Country, Migration, West

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• The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.

  Saadi

  Wisdom, Ignorance, World

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.153, Innovations and Information

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• Our religious needs are our deepest needs. There is no peace till they are satisfied and contented. The attempt to stifle them is in vain. If their cry be drowned by the noise of the world, they do not cease to exist. They must be answered.

  Isaac Hecker

  Religious, Religion, Needs

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• Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
  Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
  It is simple.
  Follow this.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Simple, Quiet, Surface

  H. W. L. Poonja, Prashanti De Jager (2000). “The Truth Is”, p.214, Weiser Books

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