"The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence."

Nerval, Gerard De on sleep   

"And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created."

Lawrence, D. H. on sleep
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on friends and friendship
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

Augustine, St. on sin
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"Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends."

Beecher, Henry Ward on friends and friendship
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"I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."

Lewis, C. S. on desires
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"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry on discipline
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

Keats, John on depression
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."

Kierkegaard, Søren on depression
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"Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth."

Kierkegaard, Søren on adversity
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"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."

Kierkegaard, Søren on joy
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed."

Kierkegaard, Søren on indolence
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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."

Kierkegaard, Søren on thoughts and thinking
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"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."

Dickinson, Emily on pain
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on words
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"Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."

Eliot, T. S. on insanity
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"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."

Churchill, Winston on   

"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use."

Blackie, Professor on books - reading
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"'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."

Homer on adversity
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"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others."

Homer on service   

"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet."

Plato on love
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"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."

Marino, Michael Garrett on love
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"Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

Eliot, T. S. on futility
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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