“My small experience in the conquest of fear can be condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! quiet trust!”
Source: The Conquest of Fear (1921), Chapter VIII : The Fear Of Death And Abundance Of Life, § V
Context: My small experience in the conquest of fear can be condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! quiet trust! That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend. Still less do I pretend that I accomplish it. I have said, a few lines above, that I tried. Trying is as far as I have gone; but even trying is productive of wonderful results.
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Basil King 5
Canadian writer 1859–1928Related quotes
“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”
Letter to David Hartley (2 July 1787) https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0441
1780s
Context: I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. Could the contrary of this be proved, I should conclude either that there is no god, or that he is a malevolent being.
Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52
Source: The Persians (472 BC), lines 598–602 (tr. Christopher Collard)
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 20 “Life” (oil study) (p. 364)
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
Context: Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast
And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.
Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.
The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.