#cease

That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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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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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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