Repose

Repose is a time of quiet relaxation and contemplation. Quotes But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 42. To husband out life's taper at the close,And keep the flames from wasting by repose. Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 87. The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh,And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, With breathless pause between,O who, with speech of war and woes,Would wish to break the soft repose Of such enchanting scene! Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles (1815), Canto IV, Stanza 13. These should be hours for necessities,Not for delights; times to repair our natureWith comforting repose, and not for usTo waste these times. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 3. Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,Are many simples operative, whose powerWill close the eye of anguish. William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act IV, scene 4, line 12. The best of men have ever loved repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence (1748), Canto I, Stanza 17. Dulcis et alta quies, placidæque simillima morti. Sweet and deep repose, very much resembling quiet death. Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), VI. 522. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 666-67. What sweet delight a quiet life affords. William Drummond of Hawthornden, Sonnet, p. 38. The toils of honour dignify repose. John Hoole, Metastasia, Achilles in Lucias, Act III, last Scene. Study to be quiet. Thessalonians, IV. 11. Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. God has given us this repose. Virgil, Eclogæ, I. 6. Chacun s'égare, et le moins imprudent,Est celui-là qui plus tôt se repent. Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest. Voltaire, Nanine, II. 10. External links repose Category:Themes