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«When words leave off, music begins.»
Author: Heinrich Heine (Poet, Writer) | About: Music, Words | Keywords: leave off
«Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, / Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: / That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.»
«The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: contention, leave off, meddled
«Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies? / I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: leave off, usury
«If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: / I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: complaint, hold off, leave off
«Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.»
«O you who believe! when the call is made for prayer on Friday, then hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave off trading; that is better for you, if you know. (The Congregation 62.9)»
«The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the peo»
«Love is like war; begin when you like and leave off when you can»
Author: Spanish Proverb | About: Love | Keywords: leave off
«He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing»