Quote by Joseph Addison
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it pr

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

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There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman

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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you. – Jessica Lange

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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. – Dag Hammarskjold

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