Quotes of Rest - somelinesforyou

“ Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ We are such stuff As dreams are made on and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death… ”

- Henry Longfellow

“ Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awaken. ”

- John Milton

“ Sleep, riches and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ”

- Jean Paul Fichter

“ True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ”

- William Penn

“ I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety. ”

- Bible

“ To sleep! perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. ”

- Voltaire

“ Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ”

- William Cowper

“ What is without periods of rest will not endure. ”

- Ovid

“ Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Sleep hath its own world, and a wide realm of wild reality. And dreams in their development have breath, and tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. ”

- Unknown

“ Sleep is a death; oh! make me try,By sleeping what it is to die:And as gently lay my headOn my grave, as now my bed. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest. ”

- Antoine Arnauld

“ If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive… ”

- Gary Zukav

“ Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. ”

- Plutarch

“ I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets. ”

- Edmund Burke
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