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“I think of death as a glad awakening from this troubled sleep which we call life; as an emancipation from a world, which, beautiful though it may be, is still a land of captivity.”

Thinking World May Stills Beautiful Sleep Land Awakening Glad Heavenly Emancipation Captivity

Author:Lyman Abbott

“In autumn even though I may see it again, how can I sleep with the moon this evening?”

May Sleep Moon Evening Autumn

Author:Dogen

“Memories may escape the action of the will, may sleep a long time, but when stirred by the right influence, though that influence be light as a shadow, they flash into full stature and life with everything in place”

May Long Light Action Memories Sleep Influence Long Time Shadow Flash Stature

Book:John Muir: Nature Writings

Source: John Muir: Nature Writings

“May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.”

Ifs Men May Night Hours Sleep Knowing Return Drug Cunning Chamber Merciful Chasms Haggard Nevermore Merciful God

Book:H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

Source: H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection

“But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!”

Way May Today Sleep Sun Months Bird Window Shakes Cherish Backwards Venus

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.”

Giving May Sleep Advice Safety Adventurer

Book:The works of Samuel de Champlain ...

Source: The works of Samuel de Champlain ...

“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”

Knows Men Needs Giving May Action Pain Lying Sleep Space Known Know How Changed Greatness Return Simplicity Driven Particles Exalted Blackness Fiery Outer Space Without Pain

Book:Sweet Thursday

Source: Sweet Thursday