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Letter "S" » slumber
«Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing»
Author: Austin Dobson
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«I have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.»
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
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«How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? / Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: / So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.»
«Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
helps, slumber, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, vigilant
«Someone invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumber, Ringing wrong but similar numbers»
«Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.»
«It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.»
«If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me! If I do wake, some planet strike me down, that I may slumber in eternal sleep!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
eternal sleep, slumber, slumbers
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