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Sleep Quotes by John Donne
- Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
- Doubt wisely; in strange way To stand inquiring right, is not to stray; To sleep, or run wrong, is.
- Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill
- One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
- From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee…
- Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us…
- But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.
- Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.
- But let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space.
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