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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
Youth is a season that has no repose.
repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.
Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.
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.
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
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.
