Victor Hugo Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Clouds Quotes

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Midnight Quotes

I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Children Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Calling Quotes

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Sleep Quotes

If a viper lives in your room and you wish to have a peaceful sleep, you must first chase it out.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Peace Quotes , Sleep Quotes

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Pride Quotes

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Passion Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Beloved Quotes

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Power Quotes

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Flower Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Endeavoring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sleep Quotes

I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Hands Quotes

Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dark Quotes

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Tired Quotes , Sleep Quotes