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«The mere chink of cups and saucers turns the mind to happy repose»
«The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Solitude
| Keywords:
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«Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.»
«Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
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Art,
Rest,
Simplicity
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qualities, repose, reposed, reposes, reposing, simplicity, True Value, work of art
«Tenderness is the repose of Passion»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
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Passion,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
repose, reposed, reposes, reposing, tenderness
«I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.»
Author: William McKinley
(Politician)
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«Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose»
«God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.»
«Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.»
«Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night»
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