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Slumber Quotes

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Deep in every heart slumbers a dream
Christian Dior

Every soul harbors a secret aspiration.
Authors on Slumber Quotes: Edgar Allan Poe Percy Bysshe Shelley Allen Ginsberg Iris Murdoch Ben Jonson Joseph Addison St. Jerome Pierre Corneille Friedrich Schiller Virginia Woolf William C. Bryant Isaac Watts Drew Barrymore Martin Farquhar Tupper Roger Williams Mark Z. Danielewski Sarah Helen Whitman William James George Crabbe Charles Caleb Colton Muhammad Iqbal Ogden Nash Edna St. Vincent Millay Jeaniene Frost Thomas Carlyle William Shakespeare George Herbert Christian Dior Lord Byron Mahatma Gandhi Emily Bronte John Hospers Robert Browning
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
Gilles Deleuze

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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.
Sarah Helen Whitman

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Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
Ben Jonson

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Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
Charles Caleb Colton

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To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
St. Jerome

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Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!
Lord Byron

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Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
Ken Wilber

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Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
Virginia Woolf

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Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts

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Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.
Roger Williams

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Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
Allen Ginsberg

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It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal

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Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.
Robert Browning

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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
Walter de La Mare

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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Otto Fischer

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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant

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The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?
Drew Barrymore

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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
Thomas Carlyle

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Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Joseph Addison

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O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

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In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.
Edgar Allan Poe

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wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Emily Bronte

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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn’t this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
Vaclav Havel

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Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
Mark Z. Danielewski

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Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash

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O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
William Shakespeare

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...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.
John Hospers

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
John Milton

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It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven't existed. I've been someone else. I've lived without thinking.
Fernando Pessoa

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The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Pierre Corneille

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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch

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O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
Friedrich Schiller

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Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were familiar. It can take things up and lay them down again. It rouses us from our native dogmatic slumber and breaks up our caked prejudices.
William James

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Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
George Crabbe

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Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?
Jeaniene Frost

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Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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One slumber finds another.
George Herbert

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Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.
Countee Cullen

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If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.
Robert E. Murray