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"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind." »Cicero
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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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"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life." »Johann von Goethe
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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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"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, Jane Eyre, 1847
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"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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, Mansfield Park
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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, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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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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"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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"Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke
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