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• Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Night, Lying, Anger

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas De Quincey, 1821.

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• Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,
  Beloved from pole to pole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Beloved, Gentle, Funny Sleep

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 293 (1798)

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• To sleep perchance to dream

  William Shakespeare

  Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

  Leonard Cohen

  Insomnia, World, Lasts

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

  Aldous Huxley

  Blessed, Blessing, Insomnia

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Sleep, thou repose of all things; sleep, thou gentlest of the deities; thou peace of the mind, from which care flies; who doest soothe the hearts of men wearied with the toils of the day, and refittest them for labor.

  Ovid

  Heart, Men, Mind

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Exercise, Insomnia

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Health

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

  Bill Cosby

  Fake People, Eye, Vision

  Twitter post from Nov 05, 2009

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• It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Good Morning, Adversity

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.180, Penguin

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  If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Funny, Change

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Littles, Nightmare On Elm Street

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• Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

  Spike Lee

  Night, Thinking, Stopping

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Math, Men

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 1

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• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  Ogden Nash

  Morning, Regret, Night

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• A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Love You, Heart

  "Fictional character: Cinderella". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

  E. M. Forster

  Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

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• Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born; Relive my languish, and restore the light.

  Samuel Daniel

  Brother, Son, Night

  'Sonnets to Delia' (1592) no. 54

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• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  William Blake

  Good Morning, Happiness, Good Day

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Air, Hiking

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Fatigue is the best pillow.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Insomnia, Liberty, Fatigue

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• Sleep is God. Go worship.

  Jim Butcher

  Worship

  Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.151, Penguin Group

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