William Shakespeare Quotes, Dream 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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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Sleep Quotes

All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

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Tags : Adam Ant Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Brain Quotes

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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

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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Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

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Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Sleep Quotes

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

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Where lambs have nibbled, silent moves the feet of angels bright; unseen they pour blessing, and joy without ceasing, on each bud and blossom, and each sleeping bosom.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Moving Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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

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Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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'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

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

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Tags : Alan Ayckbourn Quotes , Work Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Death 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

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Peace Quotes , Sleep Quotes