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“A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.”

Two Enough Motivation Sleep Liberty Mindset Graves Two Things Lazy Leisure Laziness Poor Richard Being Lazy

Book:The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Benjamin Franklin

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

Sleep Liberty Fatigue Insomnia Pillow

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty.”

Two Hours Sleep Liberty Path Mountain Creatures Equal Add Saint Climbing Rogues Fraternity Mountain Climbing Tiredness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.”

Ifs Should Firsts Heart Littles Pain Suffering Dies Asks Sleep Pleasure Liberty Excuse Going To Sleep

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!”

Giving Kind May Given Sleep Liberty Cry Tears Glory Inspired Greek Paris Idle Fury Mislead August Frivolous Be Inspired Pavement Athenians Springboards

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.”

Lying Individual Sleep Liberty Protect Down And Going To Sleep Individual Liberty Lying Down

Author:John T. Scopes