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Quote by C.S. Lewis
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

Other quotes by C.S. Lewis

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis

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Meditation
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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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Courage
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Sleep
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In bed, I can go for hours. Oh yes, I love naps. – Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

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Sleep

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Sleep

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

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Sleep

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The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us. – Shelley Berman

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