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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Men, Night, Violence

Sleep is the best meditation.
Dalai Lama

Best, Meditation

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Justice, Country

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Love, Fall

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Wife, Humility, Christian

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Before, Keep, Promises

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost

Deep, Before, Dark

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma Gandhi

Anger, Forget, Down

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman

Morning, Sorry, Tomorrow

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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Wisdom, Silence, Nourishes

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin Franklin

Morning, Death, Rise

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Pain

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

Mother, Children, Made

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mother, Him, Lovely

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.
Victor Hugo

Life, Peace, Great

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

Good, Morning, Husband

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

Worry, Lying, Lack

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Morning, Death

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. Fields

Best, Insomnia, Cure

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

Morning, Experience, Night

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Woman, Open

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
Marilyn Monroe

Days, Eat, Died

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.
Marilyn Monroe

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.
Tupac Shakur

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

Men, Night, Violence

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

Dark, Put, Paper

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake

Morning, Evening, Night

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco

Life, Nice, Job

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