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• Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Effort, Suffering, Trying

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• It may be that we cease; we cannot tell.
  Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

  John Masefield

  Miracle, May, Life Is

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Taken, Land

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• It would be fun to go back and see where all my songs stopped, because I think I'd have every number in the top 100. It never ceases to amaze me. It still hurts when one doesn't work, because you put your heart and soul into it.

  Vince Gill

  Song, Hurt, Fun

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

  Josh Billings

  Broken, Secret, Dollar Bills

  "Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings". 1865.

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• Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fire, Moments, Impulse

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• Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

  Petrarch

  Soul, Relax, Form

  Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.

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• If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hero, Perfect, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.131, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Evil, Heaven

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1859). “Shelley Memorials: From Authentic Sources : Now First Printed”, p.266

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• The discipline of live theater - doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week - never ceases to amaze me

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Night, Eight, Discipline

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• Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

  Jean Cocteau

  Elegance

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• Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Destruction, Seeds

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• When you cease doubting, you have stopped moving forward.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Moving Forward, Doubt

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• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Light, Desire

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• When two people dream the same dream, it ceases to be an illusion.

  Philip K. Dick

  Dream, Two, People

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• Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving.  When I'm in that state, nothing else matters.  I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.

  Steve Pavlina

  Expression, Oneness, Giving

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• [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Nuisance, Facts

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• The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wish, Doe

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• We shall not cease from exploring,
  And the end of our exploring
  Will be to arrive where we started
  And know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love Is, Mind Love, Bridges

  T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ideas, Perfect, Interesting

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• We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

  Douglas Adams

  Technology, Thinking, Should Have

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• The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sorry, Distance, Men

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• If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Epic, Race, Greatest Treasure

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• The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

  Idries Shah

  Taken, Doe, Care

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.126, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Art, Egypt

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.198, Hendrickson Publishers

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