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• A true spiritual practitioner is someone who has discovered that it is possible to be at ease in the world for no reason, if only for a few moments at a time, and that such ease is synonymous with transcending the apparent boundaries of the self.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Self, World

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

  John Newton

  Prayer, Affliction, Formal

  John Newton (1869). “Letters: Including Several Never Before Published”, p.81

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• The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Hands

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, (Section II, Chap. II), 1759.

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• How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.

  Robert Blair

  Years, Long, World

  Robert Blair (1826). “Sacred poems: comprising The grave, by R. Blair: The last day, by E. Young: Death, by bishop Porteus: and some minor pieces. With memoirs and notes by S. Drew”, p.21

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• Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Desire, Pleasure, Mortification

  Jonathan Edwards “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I”, Lulu.com

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• What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.

  Edward Young

  Wish, Fancy

  Edward Young (1799). “THE POETICAL WORKS OF THE REV. Dr. E. YOUNG WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.”, p.56

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• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  Walter B. Pitkin

  Eye, Hands, Play

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• The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

  John Adams

  Cheer, Men, Numbers

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.320, Library of America

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• I know you lawyers can with ease, Twist words and meanings as you please; That language, by your skill made pliant, Will bend to favour every client; That 'tis the fee directs the sense, To make out either side's pretense.

  John Gay

  Skills, Twists, Sides

  John Gay, Marcus Walsh (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.85, Taylor & Francis

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• In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.

  Adam Smith

  Kings, Fighting, Mind

  1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

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• In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease?

  William Watson

  Home, Sea, World

  Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”

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• Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

  William Jones

  Simple, Pearls, Flow

  Sir William Jones (1783). “A Grammar of the Persian Language ... The third edition, with an index”, p.134

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• There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Morning, Men, Mind

  "No Country for Old Men Novel by Cormac McCarthy". Book by Cormac McCarthy, July 19, 2005.

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• Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

  Earl Wilson

  Ability, Ill, Poise

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• Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.

  Andrew Robb

  Simple, Trying, Cost

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.

  Michel Ocelot

  Water, Fairy Tale, Language

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• At times like this There's not a lot that words can do To help ease your pain and sense of loss And though it may be hard to believe right now Know that the pain will ease with time And you will look back at the memories of your dear one And smile and remember a life well lived and loved.

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Pain, Memories

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• Sending you sincere condolences and the wish that the passing of time eases your sorrow.

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sorrow

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• This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Memories, Sorrow

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• Words cannot ease the pain you are feeling right now But just wanted to let you know that we are thinking about you And praying for your pain to ease And for you to find sunshine when the dark clouds have passed.

  Margaret Jones

  Sympathy, Pain, Sunshine

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• It has a lot to do with just sort of trust in the relationship that builds between the filmmaker and the subject. There are some people who will never be relaxed in front of a camera, and in some ways that's my failing as a filmmaker to not put them at ease. It's also a function of time, and if you have that type of time.

  Liz Garbus

  People, Cameras, Way

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.

  Shakti Gawain

  Running, Lying, Moving

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I think that a good education ought to be in part the idea that ease and joy are not synonymous. Some of the most fulfilling pleasures of life are to be found in work - found in work you love to do, work you want to do, work that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning.

  David McCullough

  Morning, Thinking, Work You Love

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge, great Neanderthal thing, it's hard to create that little space of peace, and calm, and creativity, and ease. That's what you want the director to create for you, so that when you walk on the set, you forget all of that, and the fact that it's costing gazillions of dollars a second.

  Helen Mirren

  Creativity, Space, Directors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in the Muslim tradition, Thomas Aquinas in the Christian tradition, insisted that we couldn't even say that God existed because our concept of existence is far too limited and they would have been horrified by the ease with which we talk about God today.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Wise, Intelligent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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