"We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two."
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"Someday the lion is going to lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn't going to get much sleep."
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"Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results."
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"... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up."
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"Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously."
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"I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep."
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"I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open."
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"Sleep comes more easily than it returns."
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"Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth."
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"The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime."
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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone."
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"Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep."
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"The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning."
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"A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you."
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"Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not."
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"Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world."
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"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
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"Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night."
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"I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on."
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"A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."
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