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• Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

  Honore de Balzac

  Poverty, Avarice

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

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• If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

  C. S. Lewis

  Facts, Enough, Method

  The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism Book Two Chapter I (p. 37)

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• Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

  James Anthony Froude

  Morality, Divine, Obligation

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Bunyan”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Old Friends, Tears

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.34

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• In the days when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, I know one boy who won't be sweating. I intend to raise my coffin-lid briskly, throw a few things into an overnight bag, and, whistling something appropriate, prepare to meet my Maker.

  Alan Coren

  Strong, Men, Boys

  Alan Coren (1965). “The dog it was that died”

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• I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Party, Causes, Communist

  "Dirty Hands". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 5, sc. 3, 1948.

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• It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

  Andre Gide

  Should Have, Land, Doubt

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.276, Routledge

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• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wind, Soul, Sound

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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• The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

  Quentin Crisp

  Lying, Complaining, Crowns

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

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• I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Social, Advantage, Scarce

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Life, Life Is, Sigh

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.300

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• If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Sea, Water

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Actors, He Man

  Jorge Luis Borges (2005). “Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness”, Penguin Classics

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• We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

  Alain de Botton

  Hopeful, Angry

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Communication, Mean

  "What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1896.

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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

  Frederick Douglass

  Citizens, Saws, Firsts

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.816, Library of America

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• It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry.

  Erich Fromm

  Unmasking, Arguing, Form

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Psychoanalysis and Religion”, p.111, Open Road Media

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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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• Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Memories, Air

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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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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• 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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