Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Nature 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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Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

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

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

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When we sleep the soul is lit up... by many eyes, and with them, we can see everything that we cannot see in the daytime.

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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

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A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

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If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome.

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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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Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sleep Quotes

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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I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Fire Quotes

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Sleep Quotes , World 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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