Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. — Robert Collyer Copy Share Image
“Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man… — Inazo Nitobe Copy Share Image
There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
“... the typical worker who through the whole of his life...pursues the idea of a certain artificial and elegant repose which he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do… — Horatio Dresser Copy Share Image
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. . . .… — Matthew Sleeth Copy Share Image
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“Volatile repose. The words just kept occurring to me. It was a perfect description of me -quiet, calm, but on the edge… — Katherine Ewell Copy Share Image
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose),… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
...The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to… — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
For me, my heart, that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image