Alain de Botton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Mind Quotes

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

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I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,— The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Jewels Quotes

Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

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Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

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If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

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

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

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There is a school of thought that believes that sleep is for the night. You appear to be out to disprove them.

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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie asleep.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Lying Quotes , Sleep 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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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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A dream has power to poison sleep.

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And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Sleeping Together 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

It helps me sleep at night.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Running Quotes , Sleep Quotes

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Eye Quotes

Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows.

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

The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Heart Quotes