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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

  Elizabeth I

  Care, Wavering, Woe

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• Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  God, Peace, Thinking

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• We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Animal, Individuality, Together

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• Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

  John Dryden

  Travel, Home, Range

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.56

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• I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

  Fanny Burney

  Sleep, Joy, Sorrow

  Fanny Burney (1820). “Evelina; Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.259

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• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Two, Agitation, Exhausted

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

  Barbara Walters

  Talking, People, Perfect

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• The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.

  J. G. Holland

  Song, Encouragement, Lying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

  Pope Francis

  Creative, Youth, Speak

  In-flight interview from Poland, www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Independence, Delight, Nervous

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

  Henry Rollins

  Long, Remember, I Can

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• As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Growing Up, Years

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• Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.

  Alex Trebek

  Successful, Challenges, Want

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• Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Delight, Praise

  "Confessions". Book by Saint Augustine (Book 1), www.huffingtonpost.com. 397-400 AD.

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• I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

  Lady Gaga

  Soul, Looks, Wigs

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• Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

  George Schaller

  Intellectual, Mountain, Desert

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• Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

  Adrian Tan

  Each Day, Enthusiasm, Obsession

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• Ah, current music. What would that be? Ah, really, a lot of it sounds defective to me. It makes me restless.

  Bob Dylan

  Sound, Currents, Defective

  Source: www.needsomefun.net

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• It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, What If, Sometimes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

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• Good Luck is a giddy maid,
  Fickle and restless as a fawn;
  She smooths your hair; and then the jade
  Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Luck, Kissing, Hair

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• I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

  Rod Stryker

  Unique, Doubt, Doe

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• I had a big family - two older sisters and a younger brother. My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. My father was very restless.

  Jessica Lange

  Brother, Father, Moving

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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