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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through read more
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to read more
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy read more
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.