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slumber

«To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.»
«Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: nobles, shepherds, slumber
«Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: / So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: folding, slumber
«Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: folding, slumber
«Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, /till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.»
«There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them - isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?»