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Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving un

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them. – C.S. Lewis

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C.S. Lewis

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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. – C.S. Lewis

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The safest road to hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. – C.S. Lewis

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Other Quotes from
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We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sleep

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sleep

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes

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Random Quotes

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened. – Abu Bakr

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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau

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I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner! – Hugh Laurie

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The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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