Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Sleeping World. Night's curtains now are closing Round half a world reposing In calm and holy trust, All seems one vast, still chamber, Where weary hearts remember No more the sorrows of the dust. — Matthias Claudius
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our own days and nights into a hellish turmoil. — Dale
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— Henry Ward Beecher
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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. – Woody Allen
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Today's Word –
BEMUSE
be·muse transitive verb. be·mused, be·mus·ing, be·mus·es. 1. To cause to be bewildered; confuse. Synonym
daze. 2. To cause to be engrossed
in thought.
`Now, for some space the revellers stood agape, unable to understand all that had been
done in such haste. But anon their bemused
wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.
Everything was now in an uproar, some calling for their pistols, some for their horses,
and some for another flask of wine.
The Hound of the Baskerville
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary
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LUNA The earth's satellite is the moon named Luna. Here are
a few facts about this object that graces the earth's night skies. The earth is 2,159
miles in diameter. It has a circumference of 6,790 miles. The moon is 27% of the size of
the earth. Sources | Encyclopaedia Britannica | The Handy Science Answer Book |
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And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night ... Genesis 1:14-16a
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The doctor replies, "You're not eating properly." What doctors say, and what they're really thinking: . 1) "This should be taken care of right
away." [I'd planned a trip to Hawaii next month but this is so easy and
profitable that I want to fix it before it cures itself.] From Stitches.net A stalwart Vermont farmer bought some land that was
still just as it had been before the Pilgrims landed. He dug up hundreds of stones
and built a fence; cut down trees to create a clearing; built a house and a small barn;
cleared land for pasture, dug a well and over several years just generally worked his
fingers to the bone in creating a small, neat, productive farm. jokes@gag-o-matic.lowcomdom.com NEW MERGERS If you are still reeling from the recent merger of Time Warner with AOL, here are a few expected mergers for this week on Wall Street.
Three men had won the lottery and had split the money into 3 equal parts,
but all of them wanted to give some of their money to the church.
LOTS OF PEAS Botanist Roy Noble had always dreamt of ending world hunger.
TRUE FACT ... Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day. SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University
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