“...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'”
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Calm Quotes — page 223 of 276
“Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.”
“He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.”
“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.”
“A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.”
“The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.”
“Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.”
“Use your power gently.”
“He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.”
“Speak comfortable words.”
“Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.”
“When the mind's free, The Body's delicate.”
“Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.”
“Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.”
“Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger”
“To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.”
“On your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness, Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep As is the difference betwixt day and night The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east.”
“A harmless necessary cat.”
“The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.”
“Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.”