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
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet 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
Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes… — William Hazlitt 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
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived? — Clyde Bruckman Copy Share Image
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
“Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If the vessel of our soul is still tossed with winds and storms, let us awake the Lord, who reposes in it,… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He knows he will be hurt. The warnings come to him in bed because repose threatens him” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
The reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build… — Georgia Douglas Johnson Copy Share Image
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Get married...? I...? And yet why not! Of course it wont be easy sailing, but what of that? I'm young and strong,… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
