Toyle Quotes

Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please. (Edmund Spenser)
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please" This also became Conrad's epitaph. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. View quote
Joseph Conrad