CALM

Related Subjects: Contentment, Peace, Quiet, Resignation, Rest, Self-confidence, Serenity

1. There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
   As rum and true religion.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

2. Tranquillity! thou better name
   Than all the family of Fame.—COLERIDGE, Ode to Tranquillity

3. If e'er his Duty forced him to contend,
   Calmness was all his temper, Peace his end.—DEFOE, Elegy on Annesley
   

4. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

5. A man should study ever to to keep cool. He makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.—EMERSON, Lectures
   

6. The mind which renounces, once and forever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.—GEORGE GIBBING, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
   

7. Back of tranquillity lies always conquered unhappiness.—DAVID GRAYSON
   

8. Calmness is great advantage: he that lets
   Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.—GEORGE HERBERT, The Church-Porch
   

9. Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovable, and to every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.—JEFFERSON
   

10. Calm of mind, all passion spent.—MILTON, Samson Agonistes
    

11. As calmly detached as nurses in a hospital who smile faintly at what the patients say under ether.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Thunder on the Left
    

12. He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of
    age. but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally
    a burden.—PLATO, The Republic
    

13. He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him.—Proverb
    

14. It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed.—SENECA, De Clementia
    

15. If after every tempest come such calms,
    May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

16. There is no joy but calm.—TENNYSON, The Lotos Eaters