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William Dement:Dreaming permits each and every


Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
by William Dement


John Donne:Love is agrowing, to full constant


Love is agrowing, to full constant light; and his first minute, after noon, is night.
by John Donne


Kin Hubbard:If capital and labor ever do get


If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.
by Kin Hubbard


Ann Landers:One of the secrets of a long and


One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
by Ann Landers


Joaquin Miller:Death is delightful. Death is


Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
by Joaquin Miller


Sir Walter Scott:To all, to each, a fair


To all, to each, a fair good-night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
by Sir Walter Scott


William Shakespeare:To thine own self be true,


To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
by William Shakespeare


Bob Dylan:A man is a success if he gets up in


A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
by Bob Dylan


Ralph Waldo Emerson:The moment we indulge our


The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, allennuis,vanish, - all duties even.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Oliver Goldsmith:Hope, like the gleaming taper's


Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way; and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
by Oliver Goldsmith


Steve Martin:There's someone out there for


There's someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)
by Steve Martin


Edna Saint Vincent Millay:My candle burns at


My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
by Edna Saint Vincent Millay


Walt Whitman:O to be self balanced for


O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
by Walt Whitman


John Leonard:In the cellars of the night, when


In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the shame of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
by John Leonard


Christina Rossetti:Does the road wind up-hill


Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
by Christina Rossetti


Albert Schweitzer:A man can do only what he can


A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
by Albert Schweitzer


Charles C. Colton:The bed is a bundle of


The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
by Charles C. Colton


Henry Adams:You say that love is nonsense....I


You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache orrheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
by Henry Adams


Thomas Edward Lawrence:All men dream: but not


All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
by Thomas Edward Lawrence


Syliva Plath:This seemed a dreary and wasted


This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.
by Syliva Plath


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