Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to… — thaddeus stevens Copy Share Image
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead;… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. — John Muir Copy Share Image
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart. — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for… — Edward Coke 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
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“some of the happiest moments of my life have occurred just before I fall asleep or wake up, when I linger in… — Irving Singer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And shook within their pyramids to hear A new… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain,… — Adalbert De Vogue Copy Share Image
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou… — Thomas Kibble Hervey Copy Share Image
