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• If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

  William Hazlitt

  Peace, Doe, Littles

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

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• Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.

  John Gay

  Giving, Heaven, Mind

  'Fables' (1738) 'The Vulture, the Sparrow, and Other Birds' l. 69 Behold the bright original appear. 'A Letter to a Lady' l. 85

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• Without question, purity is beautiful. We're not talking about repression or prudishness, but about having a confident and serene sense of your dignity and worth.

  Jason Evert

  Beautiful, Talking, Prudishness

  Jason Evert, Crystalina Evert (2011). “How To Find Your Soulmate without Losing Your Soul: 21 Secrets for Women”, p.126, Totus Tuus Press

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• As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

  Lord Byron

  Kissing, Blue, Wind

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Fall, Twilight

  "The Philosophy of Ingersoll: To Plow is to Pray, to Plant is to Prophesy, and the Harvest Answers and Fulfils".

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• As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Character, School, People

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Journey, Years, Waiting

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• He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sky, Silence, Solitude

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• I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything but wait for the stars. A time I love. One feels half disembodied, sitting like a shadow at the door of one’s being while the dark tide rises. Then comes the moon, marvellously serene, and small stars, very merry for some reason of their own. It is so easy to forget, in a worldly life, to attend to these miracles.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Stars, Writing, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  People, Deception, Example

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Acceptance, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Book, Eye, Journey

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.123, Vintage Canada

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• You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Gnats

  Victor Hugo (2009). “Things Seen (Choses Vues)”, p.78, Wildside Press LLC

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• In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

  Nicolas Bouvier

  Heart, Love Life, Thinking

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• I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Children, Joy

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.

  Ernie Lyons

  Spring, Rivers, Clouds

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• Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beautiful, Pain

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Nature, and Other Addresses”

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• The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

  Adolf Hitler

  Light, Two, World

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?

  Katrina Kenison

  Simple, Hands, Wind

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• Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

  Edward Abbey

  Turkeys, Envy, Littles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.

  Thomas More

  Taken, Men, Anxiety

  Thomas More (2016). “Utopia”, p.103, BoD – Books on Demand

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• So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Death, Taken, Heart

  'Margaritae Sororis' (1888)

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• Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage . . . into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind; that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go; that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.

  Ruth Perry

  Strong, Kindness, Grateful

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• It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

  Washington Irving

  Autumn, Sky, Ideas

  Washington Irving (1967). “Rip Van Winkle: The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other tales”, Putnam Publishing Group

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