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• If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

  Piet Mondrian

  Art, Real, Attachment

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• Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Ornaments, Warfare, Arms

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1866). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.8

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• [In the event of war, Americans would] 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, War, Rights

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will draw out of them the last full measure of devotion. It is a doctrine for the deep believer but it will bring only scorn from the skeptic.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Doctrine, Lasts, Devotion

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• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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• The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

  Petrarch

  Doubt, Ends

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• I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Eye, Son, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Responsibility, Men, Trust In God

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• Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Desire, Doe, Wealth

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• For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Garden, Giving, Mind

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• Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Night, College

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
  By his own talents he worked his undoing.
  Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
  Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

  Ovid

  Love, Sports, Lying

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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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• Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Lakes, People, Promise

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• I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest--
  Then why should my soul be so sad?
  I know thou art gone where the weary are blest,
  And the mourner looks up, and is glad;
  I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows
  In a land where they do not forget,
  That sheds over memory only repose,
  And takes from it only regret.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Death, Art, Memories

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• Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

  Maria Jane McIntosh

  Beautiful, Sunday, Earth

  Maria Jane McIntosh (1847). “Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be”, p.199

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• People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

  George Eliot

  Writing, People, Thanks

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1859-1861”

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• Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

  Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

  Mother, Law, Common

  "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations". Book by James William Norton-Kyshe, 1904.

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• Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, History, Titles

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1036, e-artnow

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• It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes:
  you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.

  Edgar Guest

  Goal, Rose, Secret

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.4

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in poetry, if anything, repose from material and nervous anxiety; an apt or chiselled phrase strokes the appetites and tickles the imagination. The more general public merely enjoys its platitudes and truisms jerked on to the understanding in line and rhyme; truth put into metre sounds overwhelmingly true.

  Harold Monro

  Art, Expression, Appreciate

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• Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Joy, Suffering, Paper

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