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«Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.»
«Appreciation, gratitude, affection-these are the qualities Parisians bestow on their parks. Beauty, serenity, tranquillity, majesty-these are the rewards they reap in return.»
«A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.»
«Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven»
«Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Cheerfulness
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cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, filling, in the mind, keeps, perpetual, serenity, steadies, steady
«A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Body,
Conscience,
Soul
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afflictions, befall, befalling, befalls, befell, calamities, countervail, preserves, serenity
«And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our h»
«Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
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Boredom
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boredom, serenity, waste, waste of time
«And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.»
«Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born /a hundred million years /and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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annihilation, holiday, perplexities, perplexity, put together, resume, resumed, resumes, resuming, sense of responsibility, serenity, terrors, unbroken
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