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Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which… — Michelangelo
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou
Philosophy is perfectly right in saying that life must be understood backward. But then one forgets the other clause - that it must be lived… — Soren Kierkegaard
repose, v.i. To cease from troubling. — Ambrose Bierce
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose. — William Cowper
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. — Alexander Pope
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. — Blaise Pascal
True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a… — Eli Siegel
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and… — Eli Siegel
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement… — Walter J. Phillips
My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a… — Wayne Thiebaud
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace… — Emily Dickinson
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. — John Muir
No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life. Some lean back in majestic repose;… — John Muir
We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil… — William Wordsworth
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe. — Emily Bronte
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. — Oliver Goldsmith
The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. — Indira Gandhi
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. — Edward Coke
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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