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It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts…

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I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to…
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with…
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden.... It is sad that Nature will play such…
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may…
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus,…
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as…
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating…
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than…
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
There is no greater bugbear than a strong willed relative in the circle of his own connections.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.

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I have need to busy my heart with quietude. — Rupert Brooke
Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. — Maya Angelou
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of… — Alexandre Kojeve
There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss,… — August Kleinzahler
I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a… — Carmen Agra Deedy
Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which… — Wendell Berry
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself. — Marcus Aurelius
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my… — Mary Baker Eddy
Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for… — Charles Spurgeon
The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for… — Ole Hallesby
Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to… — Mata Amritanandamayi

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