Quotes 41 till 60 of 83.
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Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
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One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
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People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
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Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
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The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
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The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
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There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
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This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
Middle of the World (1929) -
To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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