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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Better confide and be deceiv'd,
A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose.
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
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.
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
There's nothing terrible in death;
'Tis but to cast our robes away,
And sleep at night, without a breath
To break repose till dawn of day.
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.
The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.
