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Bible
Quotes & Promises
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Inspirational & Famous Quotes
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Bible Quotes |
 And she made him sleep
upon her knees; and she called for
a man, and she caused him to shave
off the seven locks of his head;
and she began to afflict him, and
his strength went from him.
(Judges 16:19)
So man lieth down, and
riseth not: till the heavens be no
more, they shall not awake, nor be
raised out of their sleep.
(Job 14:12)
I laid me down and
slept; I awaked; for the LORD
sustained me.
(Psalm 3:5)
I will both lay me down
in peace, and sleep: for thou,
LORD, only makest me dwell in
safety.
(Psalm 4:8)
Let the enemy persecute
my soul, and take it; yea, let him
tread down my life upon the earth,
and lay mine honour in the dust.
Selah.
(Psalm 7:5)
In vain you rise early and stay up
late, toiling for food to eat— for
he grants sleep to those he
loves.
(Psalm 127:2)
When thou liest down,
thou shalt not be afraid: yea,
thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep
shall be sweet.
(Proverbs 3:24)
How long will you lie there, you
sluggard? When will you get up
from your sleep?
(Proverbs 6:9)
He who gathers crops in summer is
a wise son, but he who sleeps
during harvest is a disgraceful
son.
(Proverbs 10:5)
Do not love sleep or you
will grow poor; stay awake and you
will have food to spare.
(Proverbs 20:13)
The sleep of a
labouring man is sweet, whether he
eat little or much: but the
abundance of the rich will not
suffer him to sleep.
(Ecclesiastes 5:12)
And many of them that
sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting
life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
(Daniel 12:2)
For they that sleep
sleep in the night; and they that
be drunken are drunken in the
night.
(1 Thessalonians 5:7)
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Inspirational Quotes from Famous People |
We term sleep a
death by which we may be literally
said to die daily; in fine, so
like death, I dare not trust it
without my prayers.
--Thomas Browne, Sr. quotes
Think in the
morning. Act in the noon. Eat in
the evening. Sleep in the night.
--William Blake quotes
(English visionary Mystic, Poet,
Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)
The lion and the
calf will lay down together, but
the calf won't get much sleep.
--Woody Allen quotes
(American Actor, Author,
Screenwriter and Film Director,
b.1935)
When I am
travelling in a carriage, or
walking after a good meal, or
during the night when I cannot
sleep; it is on such occasions
that ideas flow best and most
abundantly.
--Woodrow T. Wilson quotes
(American 28th President of the
United States 1856-1924)
Never believe
straight off in a man's
unhappiness. Ask him if he can
still sleep. If the answer's
'yes', all's well. That is enough.
--Louis Ferdinand Celine
quotes (French
writer and physician, 1894-1961)
We sleep, but
the loom of life never stops, and
the pattern which was weaving when
the sun went down is weaving when
it comes up in the morning.
--Henry Ward Beecher quotes
(Liberal US Congregational
minister, 1813-1887)
As a well spent
day brings happy sleep, so a life
well spent brings happy death.
--Leonardo da Vinci quotes
(Italian draftsman, Painter,
Sculptor, Architect and Engineer
whose genius epitomized the
Renaissance humanist ideal.
1452-1519)
Plough deep
while sluggards sleep.
--Benjamin Franklin quotes
(American Statesman, Scientist,
Philosopher, Printer, Writer and
Inventor. 1706-1790)
The sleeping fox
catches no poultry.
--Benjamin Franklin quotes
(American Statesman, Scientist,
Philosopher, Printer, Writer and
Inventor. 1706-1790)
A good husband
is never the first to go to sleep
at night or the last to awake in
the morning.
--Honore de Balzac quotes
(French Novelist He developed the
realistic novel describing French
society in Comedie Humaine (1841).
1799-1850)
Keep us, Lord,
so awake in the duties of our
callings that we may sleep in Thy
peace and wake in Thy glory.
--John Donne quotes
(English poet, 1572-1631)7
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