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• The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through the summer is not heard or seen, As if it could not be, as if it had not been! Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm, to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, SPIRIT fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Summer, Autumn, Past

  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' (1816)

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

  Sengcan

  Oneness, Void, Entanglement

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• There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

  William Hazlitt

  Harmony, Hours, Conceit

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

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• Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

  John Armstrong

  Health, Support, Mind

  John Armstrong, John Dyer (1858). “The Poetical Works of Armstrong, Dyer, and Green: With Memoirs, and Critical Dissertations”, p.59

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• Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Soul, Holiness

  Jonathan Edwards (1843). “The Works of President Edwards in Four Volumes: A Reprint of the Worcester Edition, with Valuable Additions and a Copious General Index”, p.21

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• While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

  Tarun J. Tejpal

  Others Opinions, Way, Natural

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• Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

  Paul Gauguin

  Future, Rose, May

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• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

  John Scalzi

  Fear, Waiting, Energy

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• She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

  Holly Black

  Ocean, Air, Electric Power

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• Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies --Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Morning, Flower, Men

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Peaceful, Depth, Calm

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• The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Planning, Assuming

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• What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Tolerance

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

  Sandrine Bonnaire

  Believe, Love Life, Trying

  "Diamond in the rough". Interview With Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2009.

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• Implacable I, the implacable Sea; Implacable most when most I smile serene- Pleased, not appeased, by myriad wrecks in me.

  Herman Melville

  Sea, Wrecks, I Smile

  Herman Melville (1991). “Selected Poems of Herman Melville”, p.121, Fordham Univ Press

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• You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie?" Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. "With your permission, I would like to answer him." "You have it," Alec replied. "Andrew," she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, "my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

  Julie Garwood

  Morning, Husband, Cutting

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Bride”, p.249, Penguin

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Retirement, Florida

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• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice. . . . Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is simple. It is serene. It is amazing. It is radiant.

  R. Kelly

  Simple, Self, Voice

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• It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Self

  Sun Tzu, Shang Yang (1997). “The Art of War”, p.47, Wordsworth Editions

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• A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

  Jean Paul

  Love, Beautiful, Summer

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• My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Heart, Empathy

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

  Erica Jong

  Pain, Flower, Love Is

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.20, Open Road Media

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