Quotes about rest




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

Arnauld, Antoine on rest    Share


"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."

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

Cowper, William on rest    Share

"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    Share

"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."

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"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    Share

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

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"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    Share

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

Paul, Jean on rest    Share

"It's no rest to be idle."

Peel, Paul on rest    Share

"Rest is the sweet sauce of labor."

Plutarch on rest    Share

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

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"Rest breeds rust."

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"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    Share

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

Runes, Dagobert D. on rest    Share

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

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"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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