#repose

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. ↗

— Henry Adams

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten. ↗

— Thomas Otway

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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. ↗

— Francis Quarles

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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 belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#belong #body #does #inn #morning