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Deep in every heart slumbers a dream
Christian Dior
Every soul harbors a secret aspiration.
2.
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
Gilles Deleuze
4.
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
6.
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
7.
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.
Charles Caleb Colton
8.
Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.
Ken Wilber
9.
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
St. Jerome
10.
Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!
Lord Byron
11.
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
12.
Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts
13.
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
16.
To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Otto Fischer
17.
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
18.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Muhammad Iqbal
19.
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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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
William C. Bryant
21.
The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?
Drew Barrymore
23.
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
25.
O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
26.
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
27.
wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
Emily Bronte
28.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
John Milton
29.
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
30.
Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.
Ogden Nash
31.
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
William Shakespeare
32.
...More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.
John Hospers
33.
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
34.
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Pierre Corneille
35.
Image of rugged cliffs
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
36.
Africa? A book one thumbs
Listlessly, till slumber comes.
Countee Cullen
37.
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
38.
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
40.
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
41.
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
George Crabbe
42.
Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?
Jeaniene Frost
43.
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