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 nature With comforting repose, and not for us To 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 power Will 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.