Repose Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes,
  Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose;
  Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance
  With timid eye, to read the distant glance;
  Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease,
  To name the nameless ever-new disease;
  Who with mock patience dire complaints endure,
  Which real pain and that alone can cure;
  How would ye bear in real pain to lie,
  Despised, neglected, left alone to die?
  How would ye bear to draw your latest breath,
  Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?

  George Crabbe

  Prayer, Pain, Real

  George Crabbe, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1857). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.15

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• Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Wisdom, Mind

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• Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Recovery, Sleep, Opportunity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Ignorance, Light, Simplicity

  Thomas Chalmers (1836). “Works”, p.314

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• Better confide and be deceiv'd,
  A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
  Than once accuse the innocent,
  Or let suspicion mar repose.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Mars, Innocent, Suspicion

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• Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.

  Moses Harvey

  Faith, Heaven, Earth

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• No one, who is familiar with the bustle and activity of an American commercial town, would recognise, in the repose which now reigns in the ancient mart of Rhode Island, a place that, in its day, has been ranked amongst the most important ports along the whole line of our extended coast.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Rhode Island, Islands

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• There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Goal

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• On eyes that watch as well as eyes that weep
  Descends the solemn mystery of sleep,
  Toiling and climbing to the very close,
  The weary Body, longing for repose,
  On the gained level of the day's ascent,
  Halts for the night and pitches there its tent.

  Abraham Coles

  Sleep, Eye, Night

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.48

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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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• Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Order, Needs

  "Vivir en Sí [To Live in Oneself]". Essay by Jose Marti, 1891.

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