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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on read more
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
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.
Without haste, but without rest.
Without haste, but without 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
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 a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far read more
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
