Quotes with ceasing

  • Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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  • Adelbert von Chamisso I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Peace Pilgrim I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • T. S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Plutarch Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Arthur Peacocke The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Katherine Mansfield When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Andre Breton It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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