Slumber quotes
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
-- Ben Jonson -
Deep in every heart slumbers a dream
-- Christian Dior -
In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
-- George Crabbe -
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
-- Gilles Deleuze -
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
-- Giuseppe Mazzini -
...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.
-- John Hospers -
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
-- John Milton -
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
-- Ken Wilber -
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
-- Muhammad Iqbal -
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
-- Nikolai Gogol -
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -
If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.
-- Robert E. Murray -
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.
-- Robert Montgomery -
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
-- Sarah Helen Whitman -
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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
-- William C. Bryant -
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
-- Ernst Otto Fischer
