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 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, 
only makest me dwell in safety.  
 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, 
only makest me dwell in safety. 
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its read more 
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
   And a wide realm of wild reality,
    And dreams in their development have breath,
     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy. 
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that read more
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: read more 
 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the 
bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished read more
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
 O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
 Beloved from pole to pole!
  To Mary Queen the praise read more 
 O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
 Beloved from pole to pole!
  To Mary Queen the praise be given!
   She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven
    That slid into my soul. 
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
It is not good a sleping hound to wake.