God's finger touched him, and he slept. [ Tennyson ]
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty -
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? [ Ellen Sturgis Hooper ]
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight.
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
If men had not slept, the tares had not been sown. [ Proverb ]
He hath slept well that remembers not he hath slept ill. [ Proverb ]
We thought her dying while she slept, and sleeping when she died. [ Hood ]
Beneath her drooping lashes slept a world of eloquent meaning; passionate but pure, dreamy, subdued, but, oh, how beautiful! [ Mrs. Osgood ]
He laid him down and slept, and from his side a woman in her magic beauty rose: dazzled and charmed, he called that woman bride,
and his first sleep became his last repose. [ Besser ]
What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]