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«But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.»
«Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.»
«For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously»
«As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dip, dip into, serene, vantage, vantage point, wondrously
«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.»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
charms, conjugal, parental, rendered, serene, Spring and
«America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.»
Author: Norman Mailer
| Keywords:
Eye of, fortunate, hurricane, hurricanes, incredibly, Protestants, serene, smug, The Center, The Hurricane
«Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
examination, lamp, pulsed, serene
«Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?»
«And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.»
«But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.»
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