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First to those universal principles I have spoken of: these you must keep at command, and without them neither sleep nor rise, drink nor eat nor deal with men: the principle that no one can control another's will, and that the will alone is the sphere of good and evil.
— Epictetus
O little town of Bethlehem!How still we see thee lie;Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee tonight.
— Phillips Brooks
Without question, I wake every night five times.
— George Clooney
Oblivion here thy wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. All right, I'll dance with you, she said, before Yossarian could even speak. But I won't let you sleep with me. Who asked you? Yossarian asked her. You don't want to sleep with me? she exclaimed with surprise. I don't want to dance with you.
— Joseph Heller
One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.
— James MacDonald
Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot beat quite till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly indebted are we to this
— Dorothy Sayers
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
sleep medication to Lunexor,
— Randy Singer
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
— John Donne
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
— Henry Ward Beecher