H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Animal Quotes

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sleep Quotes

People who wish to numb our caution in dealing with them by means of flattery are employing a dangerous expedient, like a sleeping draught, which, if it does not put us to sleep, keeps us all the more awake.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Mean Quotes , Sleep Quotes

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Life Quotes , Sleep Quotes

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dark Quotes

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sleep Quotes

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Waiting Quotes

Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Land Quotes

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Teeth Quotes

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sleep Quotes

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Hands Quotes

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Cat Quotes

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dwarves Quotes

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Awake Quotes

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Silence Quotes

Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Police Quotes

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

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Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Home Quotes , Sleep Quotes