I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.
When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.
If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Oh mysterious world. . . I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.
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.
If every man,. . . ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.
The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!
From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.