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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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