William Butler Yeats Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Twenties Quotes

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.

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Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

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The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night 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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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

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

It's the oasis," said the camel driver. "Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked. "Because we have to sleep.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Boys 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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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Beloved Quotes

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will to men.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Peace 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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

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Sleep hath its own world, and the wide realm of wild reality.

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The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape, In forms imaginary, th' unguided days And rotten times that you shall look upon When I am sleeping with my ancestors.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Sleep Quotes

John Gummer just did not have the political clout or credibility to rally the troops. I had appointed him as a sort of nightwatchman, but he seemed to have to sleep on the job.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Jobs Quotes , Sleep Quotes

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes