Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Radiant Day is slowly fading; and the evening calm and still. Gazing through the oak and willow; stoop to kiss the ancient mill. Listen to the damsel dancing; to the jig of feed and flower. And the water wheel revolving; with the dashing constant p
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange my youth.
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... Colors like a flourish of trumpets or pianissimo on the violin, great, calm, oscillating, splintered surgances.... Is this not form?
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I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.
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Circling the mountains the gray clouds go Heavy with storms as a mother with child, Seeking release from their burden of snow With calm slow motion they cross the wild Stately and sombre, they catch and cling To the barren crags of the peaks in the west
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Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time piece of Creation.
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Maybe you are the cool generation.. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious nearby freedom of death.
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Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
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They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
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He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
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How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
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Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come; and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
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Maybe you are the cool generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.
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There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.
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