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ceasing

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1. ceasing - Noun

2. ceasing - Verb

Meaning

of Cease

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. André Malraux

The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all. James Baldwin

Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description. Kenneth Clark

Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be. Henri Poincaré

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Augustine of Hippo

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