Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is not an era of repose. We have used up all our inheritedfreedom. If we would save our lives, we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Be not afraid, though every stay Should fail, or be removed away, And thou be stript of all; But lose thyself in… — Gerhard Tersteegen Copy Share Image
“Lying in a position of classic repose, Winnifred had never been more beautiful. Her silvery gold hair cascaded over the oaken door… — T.D. McKinney Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rootedlike… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“And what impels him to repeat this process at every single lesson, and, with the same remorseless insistence, to make his pupils… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“But neither the business alleged, nor the magnificent compliment, could win Catherine from thinking that some very different object must occasion so… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
![“[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7b2/wallace-stegner-1352_life_y-ou-were-too-alert-to-the-figurative-po_96500.jpg)
