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«He who stands, lives, he who sleeps, dies»
Author: Maori Proverb | Keywords: sleeps
«In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.»
Author: Philip Larkin (Poet) | Keywords: cures, sleeps
«He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence»
«I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself.»
«Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.»
«Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold the dream The dream is gone»
Author: Pink Floyd | Keywords: sleeps, swan, Swans, The Swan, wakes
«May the alert and the watchful divinities guard thee, may he that sleeps not and nods not guard thee, may he that protects and is vigilant guard thee!»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: divinities, nods, sleeps
«Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.»
«He who sleeps with a blind man will wake up cross-eyed.»
«How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.»

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