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Sleep Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
- The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
- The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.
- The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
- If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.
- What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.
- Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid,…
- I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also…
- Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate;…
- Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
- A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
- Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work…
- Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
- The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,…
- There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
- Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and…
- Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
- Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
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- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
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- The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale
- A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. — Honore de Balzac
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