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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Dark, Rays

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• These laid the world away; poured out the red
  Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
  Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
  That men call age; and those who would have been,
  Their sons, they gave, their immortality.

  Rupert Brooke

  Sweet, Wine, Son

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

  Sylvia Plath

  Gay, Order, Illusion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.151, Anchor

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• Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

  Edward Young

  Hate, Heart, Giving

  Edward Young (1767). “The works of the author of the Night-thoughts: In four [i.e. five] volumes”, p.87

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• Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

  Louis Pasteur

  Science, Library, Laboratory

  "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire. Volume 2, p. 228, archive.org. 1902.

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• Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

  Alexis Carrel

  Strength, Prayer, Real

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• I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.

  Roseline Filion

  Thinking, Preparation, Training

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• Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Weather, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

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• It's easy to feel happy when things are going your way. The trick is to remain inspired in difficult situations. That's where life stops being a game of chance and becomes one of skill. That's when, if you can stay serene in the face of adversity, you get back on track in half the time it might otherwise take.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Wise, Adversity, Difficult Situations

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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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• People who are contented and serene sleep well. They fall asleep easily, stay asleep, and wake refreshed. Conversely, people who are anxious, stressed, or depressed do not sleep well, and chronic insomnia is strongly associated with mood disorders. These are clear correlations, but what is cause and what is effect is not clear. Most experts agree that sleep and mood are closely related, that healthy sleep can enhance emotional well-being, while insufficient quantity or quality of sleep can adversely affect it.

  Andrew Weil

  Fall, Sleep, Insomnia

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• Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his mistress. He was never without an object, for when we cease to have an object, we become like an invalid in a hospital waiting for death.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Waiting, Forever

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• Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Blow, Mind

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1588, Library of Alexandria

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• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.

  Pope Leo I

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

  Cyprian

  Heart, Men, Light

  "The Writings of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage".

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• But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun's rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life--and over all is God's truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Memories, Moving, Blessed

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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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• The very sight of a teapot puts a smile on the face of most people. One cannot help but think of more serene and genteel times. From a whimsical child's teapot to an elegant English Teapot, to collectible teapots that adorn some homes, they are a subtle reminder of all that is good in this world.

  Barbara Roberts

  Children, Home, Thinking

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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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• The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

  Pope Leo I

  Long, Catholic, Given

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• Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2121, Delphi Classics

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• The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that: "All things work together for good to them that love God."

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Wisdom

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• Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Weather, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.84, Heron Dance Press

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• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  Laozi

  Strength, Truth, Heart

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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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