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The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Otway

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

William Blake

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Robert Smithson

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Loretta Young

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.

Tom Hodgkinson

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Czeslaw Milosz

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

Gaston Bachelard

The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Cyril Connolly

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Thomas Merton

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Francis Quarles

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.

Alain de Botton

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Rabindranath Tagore

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Henry Adams

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.

Louis XIV

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

Isaac D'Israeli

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Leonard Cohen

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

Louis XIV