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Letter "S" » slumbering
«Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, / And I will sing a lullaby.»
«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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«Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough mani»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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«He who watches over you will not slumber»
«A drainless shower / Of light is poesy; 'tis the supreme power; / 'Tis might half slumbering on his own right arm.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
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on his own, own right, poesy, shower, slumbering, Supreme Power
«For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.»
«Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action»
Author: Orison Swett Marden
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«Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.»
«'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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