#cease

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. ↗

— Bliss Carman

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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change. ↗

— Colley Cibber

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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

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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. ↗

— James G. Frazer

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This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

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