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serenity
«Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. 'Waiting' like that is not merely wasting time.»
«Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
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Peace
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brought about, lasting, nation state, peaceful, serenity, state of mind, state of war
«The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.»
«Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all»
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
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Action,
Right,
Thought,
Work
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See of, serenity, The Center
«Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.»
Author: William Barclay
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arms, everlasting, flow, higher power, lean, leaner, lean back, Less Than Perfect, linger, lingered, offering, peace offering, presence, presence of God, security, serenity, too little
«The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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nook, nooks, sequester, sequestered, serenity, sweet, The Sweet
«Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Cheerfulness
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cheerfulness, daylight, daylights, fills, flash, glitters, gloom, in the mind, lightning, mirth, perpetual, serenity, steady
«The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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austerities, austerity, gentleness, in restraint, purity, restraint, self-restraint, serenity
«Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blackbird, blackbirds, frequented, grieve, melt, serenity, sorrowful