And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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.
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.Ê It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.
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.
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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