Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

    “And such the trust that still were mine,
    Though stormy winds swept o’er the brine,
    Or though the tempest’s fiery breath
    Roused me from sleep to wreck and death.
    In ocean cave, still safe with Thee
    The germ of immortality!
    And calm and peaceful shall I sleep,
    Rocked in the cradle of the deep.”
    —Emma Hart Willard (1787–1870)

    “The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “What calm catastrophe will yet assuage
    This final drouth of penitential tears?”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)