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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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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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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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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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Music, ho, music such as charmeth sleep!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Titania, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 4, sc. 1, l. 83.
"Charmeth" means induces like a charm.)
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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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Life is struggle and sleep.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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