Ease Quotes

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Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to… — Michel de Montaigne
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
And but two ways are offered to our will, Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace, The problem still for us and all of… — James Russell Lowell
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your… — Francois Fenelon
What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony? — William Shakespeare
Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked? — William Shakespeare
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In… — Eric Hoffer
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Language does for intelligence what the wheel does for the feet and the body. It enables them to move from thing to thing with greater… — Marshall McLuhan
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. — Thomas Carlyle
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives… — Dalai Lama
With how much ease believe we what we wish! — John Dryden
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment… — George Washington
The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and… — William Cowper
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life. — Alexander Pope
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state. — John Milton
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent… — Jean Baudrillard

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