Best Repose Quotes
188 Repose quotes by 147 unique authors
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Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
— Thomas Cole
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The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men command What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend? What sweeter solace shall befall than…
— Nicholas Grimald
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore, the Orthodox Church…
— John of Kronstadt
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The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a…
— Carl Jung
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We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of,…
— Thomas Paine
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Now I want you to think that in life troubles will come, which seem as if they never would pass away. The night and storm…
— George MacDonald
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In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still…
— Plato
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If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love,…
— S. D Gordon
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be…
— Czeslaw Milosz
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If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
— John Sharp Williams
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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little…
— William Hazlitt
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We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
— Georges Braque
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Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
— Igor Stravinsky
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Many love music but for music's sake, Many because her touches can awake Thoughts that repose within the breast half-dead, And rise to follow where…
— Walter Savage Landor
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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be…
— Nikola Tesla
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LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment.…
— Dogen
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Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . . Live…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
— Edward Coke
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In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed…
— John Tyler
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to…
— Robert Emmet
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