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It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Bronte
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero
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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

Thomas Hobbes
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In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.

Jane Austen
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Some people have gotten mad that we're closing, real mad. But most are just sorry that we're leaving. It's been a place of tranquillity for so many years. Even if they didn't buy anything, people just came here to feel good.

Linda Bobbitt
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Chanakya
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One gradually attains tranquillity of mind by keeping the mind fully absorbed in the Self by means of a well-trained intellect, and thinking of nothing else.

Bhagavad Gita
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If peace and tranquillity are maintained in this area. I don't believe there is any need to maintain a large number of military personnel there.

Shen Guofang
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Appreciation, gratitude, affection-these are the qualities Parisians bestow on their parks. Beauty, serenity, tranquillity, majesty-these are the rewards they reap in return.

Landt Dennis
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Billie Jean King
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The house is unbelievably pretty and so peaceful. It's like a home in the middle of the countryside. My father loved the calm and the tranquillity of this place.

Nicolas Buffet
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Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Henry Fielding
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When we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

Jeremy Taylor
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It's true that this is another blow for El Salvador, but I call for tranquillity, ... We have to be calm.

Francisco Flores
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