Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful manly part or a poor drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions they have a substantial truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. - William Shakespeare

  2. One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams. - E. V. Lucas

  3. Sleeping is no mean art. For its sake one must stay awake all day. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  4. Sleep faster we need the pillows. - Jewish Proverb

  5. That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep. - Aldous Huxley

More Quotes By Ralph Waldo Emerson
  1. Love, and you shall be loved.

  2. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  3. The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

  4. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  5. It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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