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“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”
William Shakespeare
“Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere”
Blaise Pascal
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
“I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant”
Mark Twain
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”
John Lubbock
“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”
Erma Bombeck
“If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”
Joyce Grenfell
“Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.”
William Cowper
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.”
Gordie Howe
