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• Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

  Anthony Burgess

  Class, Differences, Theatre

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• there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Heart, Ambition, Romance

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, People, Watches

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• sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, Mind, Function

  Edith Hamilton (2010). “The Greek Way”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Honesty, May, Sake

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• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  Stella Benson

  Real, Voice, Laughing

  Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.65, tredition

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• Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

  Storm Jameson

  Rotten, Literature, Language

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.25, A&C Black

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• A few more years shall roll,
  A few more seasons come;
  And we shall be with those that rest,
  Asleep within the tomb.
  A few more storms shall beat
  On this wild rocky shore;
  And we shall be where tempests cease,
  And surges swell no more.
  A few more struggles here,
  A few more partings o'er,
  A few more toils, a few more tears,
  And we shall weep no more.
  Then, O my Lord, prepare
  My soul for that blest day;
  Oh, wash me in Thy precious blood,
  And take my sins away.

  Horatius Bonar

  Struggle, Blood, Years

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• That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Growing Up, Heart, Men

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• ... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.

  Julian of Norwich

  Joy, Desire, May

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.

  Gary Zukav

  Faith, Wisdom, Courage

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Soul, Useless, Erode

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• Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Ears, Please

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

  Vera Brittain

  Waiting, Mood, Fewer

  Vera Brittain (1947). “On becoming a writer”

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• love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Fire, Age

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.60, Paulist Press

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• Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Roving, Leisure

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• Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist.

  Dale Spender

  Unemployment, News, Statistics

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• When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Death, Soul, Poison

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• The Communist Party must be a revolutionary party our it will cease to be a Communist Party.

  Tim Buck

  Party, Revolutionary, Communist

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• . . . for beauty stands
  In the admiration only of weak minds
  Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
  Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
  At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Fall, Mind

  John Milton, Charles Dunster (1795). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem in Four Books”, p.86

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• 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;
  But prayer against his absolute decree
  No more avails than breath against the wind
  Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
  Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Wind, Bidding

  John Milton (1844). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Seven Embellishments”, p.247

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• In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned previously will cease to function, or at least will have to be re-thought and re-considered.

  Mark Pesce

  Believe, Moving, Historical

  "An Afternoon with Mark Pesce: The Uncut Version". Interview with Gregory Pleshaw, hyperreal.org.

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• Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Real, Public Opinion, Cracks

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• I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Believe, Past, Men

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• What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Ideas, What If, Doe

  Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press

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