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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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Labour is but refreshment from repose.
Greenland (1827) canto 2 -
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780 -
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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