Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement."
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Incessant
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Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists."
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
Mary McCarthy
Author
"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished."
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"Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep."
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"the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely."
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"I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune."
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"Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this."
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"Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised."
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