Rest Quotes
These are some of the best 'Rest' quotations and sayings.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Alternate rest and labor long endure.
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Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.
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Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
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On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day.
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Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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Rest unto our souls! - 'tis all we want - the end of all our wishes and pursuits: we seek for it in titles, in riches and pleasures - climb up after it by ambition, - come down again and stoop for it by avarice, - try all extremes; nor is it till after many miserable experiments, that we are convinced, at last, we have been seeking everywhere for it but where there is a prospect of finding it; and that is, within ourselves, in a meek and lowly disposition of heart.
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To will what God wills is the only science that gives us rest.
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Too much rest itself becomes a pain.
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True rest is not that of torpor, but that of harmony; it is not refusing the struggle, but conquering in it; not resting from duty, but finding rest in it.
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