Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.
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Amit Kalantri
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
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James Dickey
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.. Up telephone poles, Which rear, half out of leavage As though they would shriek Like things smothered by their own Green, mindless, unkillable ghosts. In Georgia, the legend says That you must close your windows At night to keep it out of the house...
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.
In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's...
