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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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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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Helping
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C.S. Lewis
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The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and dont forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. – C.S. Lewis

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Diplomacy
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C.S. Lewis
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons. – C.S. Lewis

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Bible, The
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Other Quotes from
Sleep
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Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. – Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfell

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Sleep

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. – William Golding

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Sleep

I dont wake up for less than $10,000 a day. – Linda Evangelista

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Sleep

Judith slept far into the morning the sound, deep sleep of exhaustion; that sleep of the heavy-hearted from which, almost by an effort of will, the dreams are banished. – Amy Levy (1861–1889), Reuben Sachs: A Sketch, 1888

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Sleep

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. – William Whewell

Category:
Experience

I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff – we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles! – Jamie Foxx

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Death

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc. – Duane G. Carey

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Learning