#cease

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

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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

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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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