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.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.
The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.
No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
What is divine? Simply that which man has not yet been able to understand. Once understood, it ceases to be divine.
When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
