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• The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a thousand nightingales. Spring hath sent them to awaken Earth from her morning slumber, and Earth trembles with ecstasy, her flowers are hymns, which she sings in inspiration to the sun.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Morning, Spring

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.172

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• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

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• To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

  St. Jerome

  Prayer, Saint, Miscellaneous

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• When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day: neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie, as now three or foure doe provide for themselves.

  John Smith

  People, Together, Doe

  John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.222, Applewood Books

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• You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Running, Hate, Sleep

  Jonathan Tropper (2005). “Everything Changes”, p.20, Bantam

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• 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

  Soul, May, Body

  Robert Browning (2003). “Robert Browning”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fire, Bird, Flying

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.230

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• Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Government, Media

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

  Samuel Butler

  Death, Prayer, Fall

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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• We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Animal, Sensual

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.157, Xist Publishing

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• Image of rugged cliffs
  And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
  Love itself shall slumber on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Art, Gone Love, Cliffs

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• Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

  Lord Byron

  Night, Prom, Glorious

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• Toil is the portion of day, as sleep is that of night; but if there be one hour of the twenty-four which has the life of day without its labor, and the rest of night without its slumber, it is the lovely and languid hour of twilight.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Twilight, Sleep, Night

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.205

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• There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

  Paul Goodman

  Silence, Dumb, Soul

  Paul Goodman (1972). “Speaking and language: defence of poetry”, Random House, [1972

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• In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Iron, Numbers

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• That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.

  Cate Blanchett

  Father, Halloween, Party

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• The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

  John Adams

  Cheer, Men, Numbers

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.320, Library of America

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• We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Beautiful, Death

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• If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
  Count of stars an endless number;
  If you will continue wakeful;
  Count the drops that make a lakeful;
  Then if vigilance yet above you
  Hover, Count the times I love you;
  And if slumber sill repel you
  Count the times I do not tell you.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stars, Love You, Numbers

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• O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wise, Art, Sleep

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• People will be surprised at the eagerness with which we went aboutpretending to rouse from its slumber a sexuality which every­thing-our discourses, our customs, our institutions, our regulations, our knowledges-was busy producing in the light of day and broadcasting to noisy accompaniment.

  Michel Foucault

  Light, People, Regulation

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.158, Vintage

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• Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Christian, Confused

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• Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sweet, Eye, Sleep

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• We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

  Marianne Williamson

  Political, Suffering, Needs

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Sap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.69, Harvard University Press

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