#cease

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#becomes #beginner #ceases #given #going

I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#after #anything #changed #deceased #get

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#cease #demand #labor #more #never

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#act #am #because #bristles #ceases

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#accept #apart #ceases #christ #got

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please. ↗

— Epictetus

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