“ The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. ”
- Ann Miller- Copy
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“ It was reported that the Clintons plan on selling their home in Chappaqua. There's already a plaque on the couch that says The President Slept Here. ”
- Craig Kilborn- Copy
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“ If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? ”
- David Hilbert- Copy
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“ Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married. ”
- Lewis Grizzard- Copy
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“ I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. ”
- Aleister Crowley- Copy
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“ A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ”
- Garson Kanin- Copy
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“ I long for scenes, where man hath never trod, a place where woman never smiled or wept - there to abide with my creator, God, and sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, untroubling, and untroubled where I lie, the grass below - above, the vaulted sky. ”
- John Clare- Copy
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“ I suffered terribly from heat and mosquitoes as the river sank with the increasing dryness of the season, although I made an awning of the sails to work under, and slept at night in the open air with my hammock slung between the masts. But there was no rest in any part; the canoe descended deeper and deeper into the gulley through which the river flows between high clayey banks; as the water subsided, and with the glowing sun overhead we felt at midday as if in a furnace. ”
- Henry Walter Bates- Copy
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“ While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God. ”
- Andrew Murray- Copy
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“ There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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