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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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• 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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• 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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• The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

  Victor Hugo

  Land, Water, Darkness

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Toilers of the Sea: Works Of Hugo”, p.104, 谷月社

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• A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Stars, Lying

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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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• 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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• How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

  Andrew Marvell

  Winning, Men, Tree

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

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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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• I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Comfort, Want, Intimate

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.124

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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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• The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

  Petrarch

  Doubt, Ends

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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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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Boss, Might

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

  James Carroll

  Progress, Comfort, Stories

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• The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

  John Wesley

  Sea, Soul, May

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Passion, Reflection, Understanding

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• Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

  Victor Hugo

  Laughing, Enthusiasm, Mirth

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2760, Delphi Classics

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• This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.

  Marcel Proust

  Summer, Running, Book

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.131, Modern Library

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• Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Slavery, Losing, Poor

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.92, 谷月社

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• Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life — if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer — if ever I wished a righteous wish — I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Expectations

  "Jane Eyre: Enhanced with an Excerpt from The Madwoman Upstairs".

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• For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

  Bram Stoker

  Feelings, Brain, Diaries

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.32, Zillmann Publishing

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• These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, Wish, Endurance

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 Jan. 1780

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• Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Height

  1738 A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 'Divine Love'.

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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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