Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Wall Quotes, Sleep Quotes

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?

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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.

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Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Dream Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

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I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

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Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Sleep Quotes , House 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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But think that we Are but turned aside to sleep.

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Insomnia Quotes

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Night Quotes

I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, "Oh, I only need four hours." Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well.

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What was it like to wake up after having never gone to sleep? That was when you were born.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Wake Up Quotes

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Dark Quotes

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

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I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

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Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.

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Tags : W. H. Davies Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Book Quotes , Sleep Quotes

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

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