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O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold… — Amy Carmichael
How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your… — Charles Dickens
My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My… — Joss Whedon
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Soren Kierkegaard
I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant;… — Charlotte Bronte
The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul. — Frank Delaney
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. — Arthur Schopenhauer
My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my… — John Keats
Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity… — Josef Pieper
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of… — Walt Whitman
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine… — Paul Bowles
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to… — Alexander Hamilton
Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched… — Heraclitus
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the… — James Madison
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose. — Nelly Mazloum
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. — Cyril Connolly
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's… — George Bernard Shaw
Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time,… — James Stephens
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two… — Jonathan Zittrain
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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