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Rest: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.— WM. R. ALGER — Oriental Poetry. A

Leader to Repose. Silken rest Tie all thy cares up!— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Four Plays in One. Sc. 4. Triumph of Love.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.— COWPER — Retirement. L. 623.

Rest is not quitting the busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.— JOHN S. DWIGHT — True Rest.

Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find, For those that rest not here, there's rest behind.— THOMAS GATAKER — B. D. Nat. 4.

Sep., 1574. On every mountain height Is rest.— GOETHE — Ein Gleiches.

Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now!— MRS. HEMANS — Siege of Valencia. Dirge. Sc. 9.

For too much rest itself becomes a pain.— HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. XV. L. 429.

Pope's trans. Oh, some seek bread-no more-life's mere subsistence, And some seek wealth and ease-the common quest; And some seek fame, that hovers in the distance; But all are seeking rest.— FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE — Seeking Rest.

Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. LONGFELLOw-Delia.

O! quid solutis est beatius curis! Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. O, what is more sweet than when the mind, set free from care, lays its burden down; and, when spent with distant travel, we come back to our home, and rest our limbs on the wished-for bed? This, this alone, repays such toils as these!— CATULLUS — Carmina. 31. 7.

Homines quamvis in turbidis rebus sint, tamen, si modo homines sunt, interdum animis relaxantur. Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.— CICERO — Philippicæ. II. 15.

Da requiem; requietus ager bene credita reddit. Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. II. 351.

Detur aliquando otium Quiesque fessis. Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.— SENECA — Hercules Furens. 927.

Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio. Straining breaks the bow, and relaxation relieves the mind.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Et "Bene," discedens dicet, "placideque quiescas; Terraque secure sit super ossa levis." And at departure he will say, "Mayest thou rest soundly and quietly, and may the light turf lie easy on thy bones."— TIBULLUS — Carmina. II. 4. 49.

Deus nobis hæc otia fecit. God has given us this repose.— VIRGIL — Ecloga. 1.6.