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Quiet Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments....
- Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery…
- Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
- When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity,…
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- Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee. — Saint Augustine
- I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
- Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey… — William Shakespeare
- A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a… — A. A. Gill
- What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of… — A. C. Benson
- The Set animal’s jaws were pried open so fast that it yelped and let go of my arm. I stood, now encased… — Rick Riordan
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot