John Donne Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Men Quotes

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

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Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Phoenix Quotes

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Sleep Quotes

A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.

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Tags : Alan S. Kesselheim Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

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

Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Race Quotes

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

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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

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Country Quotes , Sleep Quotes

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness?

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Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

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

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

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Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

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