“ Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Lely on animated canvas stole The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ For a while, it was this sleepy little happening on campus, but within the last 18 months, we've seen much more interest on the part of publishers. ”
- Mary Stuart- Copy
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“ Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Violence is a dead end. It is a sign neither of courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children or to blow up old women on a bus. That's not how moral authority is claimed, that's how it is surrendered. ”
- Barack Obama- Copy
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“ But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again In babyhood. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
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“ Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
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“ Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time… its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. ”
- Shirley Chisholm- Copy
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“ Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? ”
- Gregory Clark- Copy
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“ A very receptive state of mind… not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. ”
- Minor White- Copy
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“ To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
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“ Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
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“ I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
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“ A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. ”
- Gertrude Stein- Copy
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“ The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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