Repose Quotes

“Study to be quiet.”

“The toils of honour dignify repose.”

“Deus nobis hæc otia fecit.”

“But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.”

“What sweet delight a quiet life affords.”

“Dulcis et alta quies, placidæque simillima morti.”

“repose”

“Wikipedia: Repose”

“To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flames from wasting by repose.”

“Chacun s'égare, et le moins imprudent,
Est celui-là qui plus tôt se repent.”

“These should be hours for necessities,
Not for delights; times to repair our nature
With comforting repose, and not for us
To waste these times.”

“Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,
The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,
Are many simples operative, whose power
Will close the eye of anguish.”

“The best of men have ever loved repose:
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.”

“The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh,
And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die,
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene!”