Philip Sidney Quotes

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.

I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!

Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work.

I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

I need my outdoors, my comfort.

Nothing will make a place feel unlike home like chaos.