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She was beginning to stir questions in me that I'd spent all my life refusing to ask, since the day I had looked down from the window at the broken body of the schoolboy on the flagstones a long way below, while a master hurried from the cloisters with his black gown flapping in the winter wind, to see what had happened: the day when I was suddenly old enough to understand that I had a choice. I could either do what that other boy had done, or I could spend the rest of my life outside society, where it was safe


Adam Hall


#quiller #society #suicide #life

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


Aphra Behn


#found #friend #good #library #life

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.


James Dickey


#i #poetry #tranquillity #want

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.


Robert Walpole


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As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.


Daniel H. Hill


#afar #battle #battles #few #fight

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


#desire #fear #here #itself #life

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.


Sidney Altman


#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.


Neil Armstrong


#eagle #here #houston #landed #tranquillity

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#liberty #tranquillity

It is 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.


Jacob Bronowski


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