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To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Samuel Johnson
Death, Sleep, Preparation
The Rambler no. 78 (15 Dec. 1750)

Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Animal, Vegetables
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Winter, Rivers

Sleep undisturbed within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Angel, Peaceful
"The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings".

It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Doors, Law
Samuel Johnson (2012). “Lives of the Poets”, p.119, tredition

The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another; to dress and to undress, to eat and to sleep, are the same in London as in the country.

Samuel Johnson
Country, Sleep, Humanity
Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

Samuel Johnson
Love, Peace, Sleep
Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.88

Preserve me from unseasonable and immoderate sleep.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Preserves
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Prayers and Meditations, composed by S. Johnson ... and published from his manuscripts, by George Strahan ... The fourth edition”, p.49

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

Samuel Johnson
Sleep, Nightcap, Knows

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