Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.