"What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion."
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"If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it."
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"Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep."
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"The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living."
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"The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature."
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"The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes."
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"I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped."
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"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it."
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"Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky."
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"A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit."
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"A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking."
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"Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed."
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"Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder."
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"Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate; he will not lift his hand to save his life; he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure."
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"The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss."
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"Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it."
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"We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime."
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"Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river."
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"Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep."
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"The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country."
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