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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you pleaseyou can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
— Blaise Pascal
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
— Jean-Paul Marat
Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.
— Luc De Clapiers
Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
— Charles F. Haanel
For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.
— John Sharp Williams
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
— Cesare Pavese
Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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. — Robert Montgomery
In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.
— Francois Arago
The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
— George Eliot
We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.
— Georges Braque
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
— Igor Stravinsky
Repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.
— Ambrose Bierce
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
— Alexander MacLaren
There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
— Francois Fenelon
Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
— Edward Coke
The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand.
— Susan Abulhawa
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.
— Neil Young
He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace
— Mikhail Lermontov
We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.
— Joseph Joubert
Her dark eyes looked as if they found repose there, so quietly did they rest on the face of the old man,
— George MacDonald
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
— Michel De Montaigne
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
— William Blake
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.
— Walter Savage Landor
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tranquillity is courage in repose.
— Inazo Nitobe
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
— Leonard Cohen
Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.
— Michel De Montaigne
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
— Alexander Pope
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
— Cyril Connolly
In each pose there should be repose.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.
— Philip Sidney
The mountain-path of Action is no longer a path for me; my future hope pauses with my present happiness in the shadowed valley of Repose.
— Wilkie Collins
A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.
— Wes Craven
Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.
— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl Of Hardwicke
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
— Robert Smithson
You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,
My slumber, my repose,
Without you, I can't cope. — Rumi
He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
— Francis Quarles
Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
— William Gilmore Simms
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only when night comes do I feel, if not happiness, at least some kind of repose which I experience as contentment
— Fernando Pessoa
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
— Petrarch
By a garden is meant mystically a place of spiritual repose, stillness, peace, refreshment, delight.
— John Henry Newman
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Wisdom is the repose of the mind.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
— Emily Bronte
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
— Jules Michelet
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
Better confide and be deceiv'd,A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose. — Frances Sargent Osgood
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
— Loretta Young
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.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
— Michel De Montaigne
The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose ...
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
