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Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Philoctetes, l. 827.)
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This sleep is sound indeed, this is a sleep
That from this golden rigol hath divorced
So many English kings.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Prince Henry, in Henry IV, Part 2, act 4, sc. 5, l. 35-7.
"Rigol" means circle (compare "regal").)
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Life itself is a bubble and a skepticism, and a sleep within sleep.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses,
Delilah of the spirit.
(Christopher Morley (1890-1957), U.S. novelist, journalist, poet. Sleep.)
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To die, to sleep—
No more, and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to—'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil
Must give us pause.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Hamlet, in Hamlet, act 3, sc. 1, l. 62-70 (1604).
Part of Hamlet's meditative soliloquy on the question of "To be, or not to be." Sleep was proverbially the image of death; "rub" means snag (a term from the game of bowls); "coil" means turmoil.)
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
(William Hazlitt (1778-1830), British essayist. The Plain Speaker, "On Dreams," (1826).)
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Life is struggle and sleep.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,
Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose
(John Fletcher (1579-1625), British dramatist. The Tragedy of Valentinian (V, ii). . .
Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.)
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Sleep will unshell us, but not yet.
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Midwinter Waking.")
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Come higher, Sleep,
And my griefs enfold:
(William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, mystic. From Poetical Sketches. Mad Song (l. 3-4). . .
The Complete Poems [William Blake]. Alicia Ostriker, ed. (1977) Penguin Books.)
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