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Letter "A" » at rest
«I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.»
«I love you - I am at rest with you- I have come home.»
«Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.»
«The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.»
Author: W. Clement Stone
(Author, Founder)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
acted, at rest, external, force of law, inertia, motion, natural law, straight line, uniform
«And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.»
«Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Grief
| Keywords:
at rest, continues, threshold, troublesome
«OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy. A dormitory without an alarm clock.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarmed, alarming, ambitious, at rest, authors, betters, clock, dormitory, dreariest, dreary, dumped, dumping, dumps, envy, eternal rest, fame, Higher Ground, High Hopes, meeting place, oblivion, Pride and, storage, struggling, The Alarm, The State, wicked
«There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest»
«Weariness.Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptin»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
at rest, dependence, diversion, diversions, forlornness, insufferable, insufficiency, nothingness, weariness
«Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
at rest, entertainment, intolerable
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