Quotes with ceases

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  • George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aphra Behn Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Ruskin Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • William Hutton The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • A. E. Housman The rainy Pleiads wester,
    Orion plunges prone,
    The stroke of midnight ceases,
    And I lie down alone.
    More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Edmund Burke There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Meister Eckhart We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Salman Rushdie What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet What we share with another ceases to be our own.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • William Hazlitt When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Barry Hannah When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Eric Hoffer Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert Frost Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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