“Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer,
Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.”

— Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

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“Sleep, Nurse of our life, Care’s best reposer,
Nature's high'st rapture, and the vision giver.”