Can you identify this passage?

May 25, 2017 9:33 PM

My Google Fu is failing me, and I'm looking for the source of this passage: "Sleep is the source of our strength, a balm for the sick soul, the best of all medicines. Each person from his own experience knows that often the best and only way to get rid of heavy anxiety or mental fatigue is for them to sleep. Happy is the one to whom the dream is invariably at a certain time, for a certain period and leaves as quietly and imperceptibly as it came."
posted by mecran01 to Education (4 answers total)

Could it have been a paraphrase of

Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.

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posted by zadcat at 9:46 PM on May 25, 2017

Response by poster: I am pretty sure that it has been translated from whatever languages are spoken in Kyrgyzstan, into English. That's one way to bypass a plagiarism detector. I'll just have chat with the student and re-show him how to integrate sources.
posted by mecran01 at 10:00 PM on May 25, 2017

Best answer: It's a pretty literal translation of the second paragraph of this Russian-language page.
posted by a certain Sysoi Pafnut'evich at 9:45 AM on May 26, 2017 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: a certain Sysoi Pafnut'evich, thank you so much for this. The residents of Metafilteria rarely disappoint.
posted by mecran01 at 11:23 AM on May 26, 2017