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Quotes About Tranquility

We aspire to the top to look for Rest; it lies at the bottom. Water rests only when it gets to the lowest place. So do men.
~ Henry Drummond
What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in sleep.
~ Henry Emmons
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James
When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air; Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. Bright pledge of peace and sunshine!
~ Henry Vaughan
All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the night shall be filled with music,And the cares, that infest the day,Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,And as silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All was silent as before — All silent save the dripping rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
without noise of drums or
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Drops Dripped. Quiet talk went on. Horses neighed and scuffled. Someone snored.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Blessed are the peacemakers; theirs is the kingdom of heaven
~ Leo Tolstoy
I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He felt that in the depth of his soul something had been put in its place, settled down, and laid to rest.
~ Leo Tolstoy
One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
~ Leo Tolstoy
And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nothing does harm if one`s mind is at peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That's the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolai Levin.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Era preciso, pues, buscar el olvido en el sueño de la vida.
~ Léon Tolstoï