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“Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“I wanted to read all these books, but I would have to have been in a rest home or something in order to do that.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“History knows no resting places and no plateaus.” Henry Kissinger, White House Years
“It is always the way of events in this life . . . no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Nothing gives certainty but truth; nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, steal me awhile from mine own company.” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts, and all Roosevelt's friends know that his restless and combative energy was more than abnormal.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then!” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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