Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually. Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come.
I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.