#cease

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased. ↗

— George Whitefield

#divers #extraordinary #ghost #holy #holy ghost

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#alive #appears #cease #cease to exist #dust

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

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#close #communicate #cruel #felt #loneliness

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#never #self-evident #shall #these #truths

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

— William Hazlitt

#controversy #interest #subject #thing

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

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