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• You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

  John Wooden

  Trying, Being The Best, Should

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

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• A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

  George Washington

  Marriage, Beautiful, Moving

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Cry, Incessant

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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• Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Expression, Ideas, Office

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.580, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Home, Golf, Play

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• I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mind, Negative, States

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• True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

  Martin Luther

  Light, Giving, Sun

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• There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

  Cyril Connolly

  Dream, Children, Hate

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!

  Martin Luther

  Taken, Hypocrite, House

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• I think gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. True gardeners are both iconographers and theologians insofar as these activities are the fruit of prayer 'without ceasing.' Likewise, true gardeners never cease to garden, not even in their sleep, because gardening is not just something they do. It is how they live.

  Vigen Guroian

  Prayer, Sleep, Garden

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• Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Home, Born

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• Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

  James M. Barrie

  Blessing, Wings, Perfect

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
  [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et
  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro
  Appone.]

  Horace

  Future, Stores

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• You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

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• Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

  Anais Nin

  House, And Love, Turns

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• The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Opportunity, Mind, Glory

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.46

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• Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Character, Opportunity

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.46

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• Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wings, Ideas, Nails

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• There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Night, Names

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.146

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• A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Successful, Fame

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.39

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• Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, America, Python

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.496, Lulu.com

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• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

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• Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Blessed, Voice

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

  Washington Irving

  Miracle, Curiosity, Desire

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• No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

  Leigh Hunt

  Wonder, Greater, Ifs

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.52

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