Equable Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of…
— Jean Paul
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,…
— Anthony Storr
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He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to…
— William Wordsworth
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
— Francis Parkman
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It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when…
— John Burroughs
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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of…
— Walt Whitman
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping…
— Washington Irving
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Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
— Robert W. Service
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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked…
— Richard Ford
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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or…
— Michael Pollan
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
— Charles Dickens
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Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable…
— J I Packer
Who Wrote These Equable Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Equable Quotes as follows: