Quotes about rest

"Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest."

Arnauld, Antoine on rest   

"Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls."

Bible on rest   

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."

Cowper, William on rest   

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on rest
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"Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life."

Duffield, S. W. on rest   

"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

Franklin, Benjamin on rest
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"If you rest, you rust."

Hayes, Helen on rest
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"For too much rest becomes a pain."

Homer on rest   

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

Lubbock, Sir John on rest
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"It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal."

Moss, Stirling on rest   

"What is without periods of rest will not endure."

Ovid on rest   

"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."

Pascal, Blaise on rest
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"Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death."

Pascal, Blaise on rest   

"No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned."

Paul, Jean on rest   

"It's no rest to be idle."

Peel, Paul on rest   

"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."

Plutarch on rest   

"How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward."

Proverb on rest   

"Rest breeds rust."

Proverb, German on rest   

"Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest."

Quarles, Francis on rest   

"Work is man's most natural form of relaxation."

Runes, Dagobert D. on rest   

"No one needs a vacation more than the person who just had one."

Unknown, Source on rest   

"Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother."

Voltaire on rest
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"When life gets you down, sometimes it's best to just stay down for a moment, let yourself rest... and then get up later."

Kessler, Daniella on rest
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