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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm...

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At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It sho...

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Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. Th...

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I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

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Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to li...

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How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if...

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Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to ...

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Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it ...

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I don't feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same tim...

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life...

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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consulta...

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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently ...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were ...

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The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; t...

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It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised ...

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As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushin...

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To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it;...

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She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so muc...

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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

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The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisio...

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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

When the odds are hopeless, when all seems to be lost, then is the time to be calm, to make a show o...

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Ian FlemingOn Her Majesty's Secret Service

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his res...

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Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong...

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If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a...

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Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine...

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When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

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Rushing into action, you fail.Trying to grasp things, you lose them.Forcing a project to completion,...

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God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come wha...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of release and boundless freedom that he had never known before....

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Michael EndeThe Neverending Story

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I h...

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out....

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clea...

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I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His ow...

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The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm.