Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
Context: These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Context: These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.
"Has Christianity Failed?" http://books.google.com/books?id=C1cCAAAAIAAJ&q="even+of+death+Christianity+has+made+a+terror+which+was+unknown+to+the+gay+calmness+of+the+Pagan+and+the+stoical+repose+of+the+Indian"&pg=PA215#v=onepage, in the The North American Review (February 1891)
“The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.
“Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is hard work.”
Diary entry (21 February 1944).
The Diary and Letters of Käthe Kollwitz (1955)
“And hie him home, at evening's close,
To sweet repast and calm repose.”
Source: Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=oopv (1754), Line 87
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 20
“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”
Torquato Tasso, Act I, sc. ii (1790)
