We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
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
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance… — George Crabbe 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
.... the brisk exercise imparts elasticity to the muscles, fresh and healthy blood circulates through the brain, the mind works well, the… — David Livingstone 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
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
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 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
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
Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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