Best Repose Sayings
188 Repose quotes by 147 unique authors
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Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every…
— Horatio Dresser
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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
— John Henry Newman
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There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
— Unknown Author
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Tzu Li went to see Tzu Lai who was dying. Leaning against the door, he said, 'Great is the Creator! What will he make of…
— Zhuangzi
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A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well…
— Gaston Bachelard
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It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but…
— Thomas Cole
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Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where…
— Saint Augustine
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Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in…
— Albertus Magnus
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
— Tacitus
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Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
— Jules Michelet
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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
— Jean-Paul Marat
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Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved…
— Zhuangzi
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Sorrow and happiness are the heresies of virtue; joy and anger lead astray from TAO; love and hate cause loss of virtue. The heart unconscious…
— Zhuangzi
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror…
— Zhuangzi
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a…
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
— Charles F. Haanel
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Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are…
— Thomas Paine
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There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that…
— Joyce DiDonato
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