A. J. Jacobs Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Sleep Quotes

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

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

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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

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Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

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Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

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

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

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I prefer the films that put their audience to sleep in the theater. Some films have made me doze off in the theater, but the same films have made me stay up at night, wake up thinking about them in the morning, and keep on thinking about them for weeks.

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One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

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My wife and I always have a winter holiday that I call the "fly and flop". In January and February, you don't want culture, you just want to get your bones warm and eat, drink, sleep. We usually go to the Caribbean.

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Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

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A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

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Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?

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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

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Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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