Succumb to Sleep
Card Quotes

For the Outside Greeting of each card:

1. Pick a quote. Selections can be from our entire data bank, not just STS
2. Remember the quote number and the first 3 words (you'll enter them on the order page) or
3. Use a favorite quote of your own (you'll write it on the order page)

For the Inside Message of each card:

1. Use the inside message paired with that quote (you'll select it on the order page) or
2. Change that inside message to better suit your situation (you'll write it on the order page) or
3. Pick an inside message (paired with a different quote) that works better (you'll write it on the order page) or
4. Use your own inside message (you'll write it on the order page)

Once you've decided on a gift and the quote/message you want, return to the product page (by clicking on Back or the gift link) and click on a Buy It button. You'll enter your quote/message information on the order page.

Quote
"O sleep! O gentle sleep!
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

Suggestion
Connect this outer quote to the gift with an inner quote that says, Entice sleep's return with this. It restores nocturnal bliss.

Quote
"Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift with an inside message that says, With this anti-insomnia weapon, wakefulness is banished and sleep is beckoned. Happy Restive Birthday!

Quote
"Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast."

Suggestion
Connect this outer quote to the gift with an inner message that says, In your quest for rest, try this anti-insomnia treasure chest.

Quote
"Not poppy, nor mandagora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift by having the inner message say, Sleep without sedatives can be restored. Open the gift; enjoy the reward.

Quote
"Sleep . . . knits up the raveled sleeve of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."

Suggestion
Expand the sleeplessness theme by having the inner message say, Be replenished. Be replete. Look inside. Discover sleep.

Quote
"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind when body's work's expired."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift by having the inner message say, This gift aids in sleep restoration by purging the mind of preoccupations. Happy Restive Birthday!

Quote
"Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace...
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:
O make in me those civil wars to cease."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift by having the inner message say, Although you seek and implore, sleep's refrain laughs "nevermore." Shatter then this dreary curse by purging night of sleep's inverse. Look inside.

Quote
"The weary mind's hypnotic,
The aching body's narcotic;
Sleep.
The method for obtaining it
Demands that you permit
Your senses to submit
To perfect peace."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift by having the inner message say, Look inside.

Quote
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on
And our little life is rounded with a sleep."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to the gift by having the inner message say, If you look inside, you'll be astounded that your sleepless life can be rerounded by such a simple gift. Happy Birthday and Pleasant Dreams!

Quote
"O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
Beloved from pole to pole!
To Mary Queen the praise be given!
She sent the gentle sleep from heaven."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message that says, Knowing sleep is heaven sent, I bowed my head and said a prayer. Then a voice said, "With this present you can give sleep's sweet repair." Look inside.

Quote
"Now, good night! May Sweetest Slumbers
And soft Silence fall in numbers
On your Eye-lids: So, farewell;
Thus I end my Evening knell."

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message that says, Climb out of the abyss. Try this.

Quote
"O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weight my eyelids down
And steep my senses, in forgetfulness?"

Suggestion
Connect this quote to an inside message that says, Look within. And find restful sleep again.