John Donne Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Calling Quotes

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Sleep Quotes

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Writing Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Block Quotes , Sleep Quotes

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

A dream has power to poison sleep.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dying Quotes

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

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

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Sleep Quotes

While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wine Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Giving Quotes

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Long Quotes

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Strong Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Healing Quotes , Sleep Quotes

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes