Alain de Botton Quotes, Beautiful 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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Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Rags Quotes

The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dust Quotes

Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Sleep Quotes , House Quotes

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

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The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

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

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Love You Quotes , Sleep Quotes

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Men Quotes

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Maids Quotes

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Death Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Life Quotes , Sleep Quotes

He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Sea Quotes

All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Silence Quotes

God is here, right now, at our side. We can see him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Angel Quotes , Sleep Quotes