#cease

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#anything #cease #doing #manner #never

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#began #believe #bible #ceased #discover

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#cease #did #lawyer #lincoln #politician

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#bespeaks #ceased #earth #ignorance #knows

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#finish #her #him #man #mistake

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

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

— Johan Huizinga

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cease #country #democracy #democratic #effectively

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#else #feasts #must #rare #solemn