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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.


Aphra Behn

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APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a demon only when it ceases to be a god.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
JOHN CHEEVER When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
STANLEY KUBRICK A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
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STEVE MARABOLI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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ANTHONY BURGESS The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
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JEFF EDWARDS Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
JOHN RUSKIN Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
PROVERB Who ceases to be a friend never was one.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
GEORGE ILES Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
GEORGE ILES Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. FORSTER A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mi...
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EDMUND BURKE There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
JOHN BUNYAN There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a...
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JOHN RUSKIN Self-interest, fear of physical pain, drove him to that grotesque act of self-abasement. Its insince...
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EDGAR QUINET Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
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CALVIN COOLIDGE Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.
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THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
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OSHO Love ceases to exist in the kingdom where trust has been dethroned.
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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
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