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• Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

  Edmund Sears

  Night, Listening Ear, Heaven

  Edmund Hamilton Sears (1885). “That Glorious Song of Old”

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• Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

  Eli Siegel

  Opposites, Oneness, Long

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• In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility and grandeur to the highest degree; it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst. Directed by the will of the master, the trombones can chant like a choir of priests, threaten, utter gloomy sighs, a mournful lament, or a bright hymn of glory; they can break forth into awe-inspiring cries and awaken the dead or doom the living with their fearful voices.

  Hector Berlioz

  Music, Religious, Powerful

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• Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.

  David McCullough

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Despair

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• The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

  James Frey

  Regret, Grief, Sadness

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.316, Anchor

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• My faith is the reason I run - it calms my heart and makes everything feel like a lift. My speed is definitely a gift from Him, and I run for His glory. Whatever I do, He allows me to do it.

  Allyson Felix

  Running, Heart, Speed

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• A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Color, Joy

  "Matisse on Art".

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• Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They'll patronize you and say they admire your passion, 'sweetie,' but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It's inescapable. You can set your watch by it.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Girly, Silly, Passion

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• When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an opposing player's physical or psychological tactics is to keep cool and come right back at him with the force of your game, not your fists. Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game.

  Walt Frazier

  Revenge, Team, Winning

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• Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Want, Quiet

  "Benito Mussolini: a biography".

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• Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

  Harvey Karp

  Baby, Jobs, Crazy

  Harvey Karp, M.D. (2008). “The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer”, p.20, Bantam

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• Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3

  Randy Glasbergen

  Funny, Hot, Calling

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• There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind. It leads you on a beautiful journey back to your original self; the perfect, beautiful you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Simple, Journey

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• When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

  Origen

  Strong, Weather, House

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• Regular meditation opens the avenues of
  intuitional knowledge,
  makes the mind calm and steady,
  awakens an ecstatic feeling,
  and brings the practitioner in contact
  with the source of his/her very being.

  Sivananda

  Meditation, Feelings, Mind

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• I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Thrones, Prince Of Peace, Sitting

  "Self-realization".

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• The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

  Gregory Maguire

  Evil, Support, World

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• If you can sit quietly after difficult news; if in financial downturns you remain perfectly calm; if you can see your neighbors travel to fantastic places without a twinge of jealousy; if you can happily eat whatever is put on your plate; you can fall asleep after a day of running around without a drink or a pill; if you can always find contentment just where you are: you are probably a dog.

  Jack Kornfield

  Running, Dog, Fall

  "A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times". Book by Jack Kornfield, www.lionsroar.com. 2011.

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• I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Children, Party, Moving

  In Michael Foot 'Aneurin Bevan' (1973) vol. 2, ch. 11

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• A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Men, Lifetime, Hours

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.157

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• The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

  Kevin DeYoung

  Pruning, Quiet, Grows

  Kevin DeYoung (2013). “Crazy Busy”, p.19, SPCK

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• Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten . . . that is enough for you. Then your nerves are calm and you can sleep good, you have your drink in the evening and the next morning you are fit again.

  Erich Hartmann

  Morning, Sleep, Nerves

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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• The more they made noise, the more calm I became.

  Vijay Singh

  Golf, Noise, Made

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