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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.

George Bernard Shaw
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I've learned of life this bitter truth/ Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,/ But rather,/ Build within thy own soul/ Fortresses!

Georgia Douglas Johnson
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REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Ambrose Bierce
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LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Ambrose Bierce
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...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine
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From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials; it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.

Charles Sumner
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Honest men are the soft, easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Thomas Otway
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The art of measurement, by showing us the truth would have brought our soul into the repose of abiding by the truth, and so would have saved our life.

Protagoras
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Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Edward Coke
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The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke
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