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
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
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that… — 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
History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
“Death finally comes, usually in the evening, when something in the raconteur fades out for good and in the midst of his… — Zachary Mason 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
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes […], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. .… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers'… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call “repose in action,” a quality of those who act rather than talk.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep Descends the solemn mystery of sleep, Toiling and climbing to the very… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image