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Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech. — Dogen
-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting. — Epictetus
When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil. — Sathya Sai Baba
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought. — Eliphas Levi
Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there. — Ernest Holmes
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. — Tammara Webber
The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. — Margaret of Valois
Stop giving energy to the things you don't want. — Wayne Dyer
When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on. — Lewis Carroll
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. — W. C. Fields
Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. — George Allen
When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging. — Will Rogers
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope. — Miguel de Cervantes
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde
I call on all scientists in all countries to cease and desist from work creating, developing, improving and manufacturing further nuclear weapons - and, for that matter, other weapons of potential mass destruction such as chemical and biological weapons. — Hans Bethe
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. — Charles Lamb
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. — Peter Lewis Allen
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them. — Dalai Lama
Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! — Oliver Goldsmith
Dear Isabelle, Alec is about to have a nervous breakdown. If you do not immediately desist planing my wedding to your brother, I will come back to Manhattan and blow up the Institute. I will turn Church into a man-eating beast who will rampage through the streets of Manhattan, stepping on mundanes. And I will make you fat. Love, Magnus — Cassandra Clare
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. — Horace
To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. — Luther L. Bohanon
This mesa plain had an appearance of great antiquity, and of incompleteness; as if, with all the materials for world-making assembled, the Creator had desisted, gone away and left everything on the point of being brought together, on the eve of being arranged into mountain, plain, plateau. The country was still waiting to be made into a landscape. — Willa Cather
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you. — Michael Arad
It would be so simple to allow children, when tired of sitting, to rise, and when tired of writing, to desist, and then their bones would not be twisted. — Maria Montessori
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve. — Andrew Linzey
There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere. — Magha
When midlist writers are treated like dirt, I would desist were I less stubborn and less committed. — Marge Piercy
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never. — Lord Byron
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. — Peter B. Lewis
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity. — Ray Brassier
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . . Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity. — John Amos Comenius
Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'." — Deepak Chopra
[Humans'] capacity to intervene, to compare, to judge, to decide, to choose, to desist makes them capable of acts of greatness, of dignity, and, at the same time, of the unthinkable in terms of indignity. — Paulo Freire
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves. — Clement of Alexandria
And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows, and who stared you in the eyes with cold serenity. — Georges Simenon
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. — Baltasar Gracian
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder. — Robert Burns
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose. — C. S. Lewis
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