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• My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.... I never felt my mind repose upon anything with complete and undistracted enjoyment- upon no person but you. When you are in the room my thoughts never fly out of window: you always concentrate my whole senses

  John Keats

  Mind, Body, Rooms

  Jane Campion, John Keats (2009). “So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne”, p.24, Penguin UK

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• We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

  Georges Braque

  Perpetual

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• The man who wants a garden fair, or small or very big, With flowers growing here and there, Must bend his back and dig. The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've got to work to gain. It matters not what goal you seek, It's secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Flower, Men, Garden

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• The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hard Work, Night, Men

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• No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest of all virtues is true valor) and noble in its cause. No utility either more just or universal than the protection of the repose or defense of the greatness of one's country. The company and daily conversation of so many noble, young and active men cannot but be well-pleasing to you.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Military, Exercise

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

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• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.38, Coventry House Publishing

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• This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Men, Giving

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• When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

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• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Spring, War

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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• The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Nature, Hard Work, Science

  William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1842). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”

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• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Yoga, Essence, Meditation

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doe, Coins, Useless

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.262, 谷月社

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• Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Greek, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.376

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• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Retirement, Flower, Ambition

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• Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Paramount, Gentleness

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• A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Silence, Musical, Exhausted

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• Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

  Hadewijch

  Men, People, Humanity

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Uprising, Our World, Long

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• Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Solitude, Mind

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• Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

  Neil Young

  Reason, Labour

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• Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Nature, Wells

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• I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

  Judy Holliday

  Dog, Expression, Looks

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