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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
Lewis Carroll
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell
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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
Nikola Tesla
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How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker
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In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
Philip Larkin
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. Davies
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
Jacques Maritain
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
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All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.
Richard Harding Davis
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
Paracelsus
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Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
George Borrow
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I cannot sleep — great joy is as restless as sorrow.
Frances Burney
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos
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No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.
Robert Adams (photographer)
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
Georg Groddeck
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Life is not so very long... A little work, a little sleep, a little love, and it is all over.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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