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• PHILOSOPHY: The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends.
• philosophy: The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends.
• Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe may warm him at his fire, mark all his wand'rings and enjoy his frets, as cunning fencers suffer heat to tire.
  -- Herbe...
• You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.
  -- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) -- The Complete Angler, Part i, Chap. 1...
• A man who is always forgetting his best intentions may be said to be a thoroughfare of good resolutions.
  -- Mrs. Jameso...
• But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll
  Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul....
• I cannot here avoid giving my most decided sufferage in favour of the moral qualities of maniacs.
  I have no where met, excepting in romances, with fonder husbands, more affectionate parents, more impassioned ....
• In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedne
  in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism....
• The heart of an average adult male weighs 9 - 11 ounces. The average adult female, 7 - 9 ounces.