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- True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
- Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Baltasar Gracian
- If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
- Dale Carnegie
- Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.
- Anonymous
- Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 1590
- As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.
- Baltasar Gracian
- Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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