#repose

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

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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

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

— Thomas Otway

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

— Rabindranath Tagore

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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

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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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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Travelers repose and dream among my leaves. ↗

— William Blake

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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. ↗

— Helena Petrova Blavatsky

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

— Edward Coke

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