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“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.”

Eye Night House Secret Quiet Lays Burning Flames Veils Stairs Concealed Lanterns Dark Night Of The Soul

Author:John of the Cross

“I questioned the faithful of all communions; I particularly sought the society of clergymen, who are the depositories of the various creeds and have a personal interest in their survival ... all thought the main reason for the quiet sway of religion over their country was the complete separation of church and state. I have no hesitation in stating that throughout my stay in America I met nobody, lay or cleric, who did not agree about that.”

“Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate, and which is as far removed from the dead palsy of unbelief as it is from the delirious raptures of fanaticism. Theirs is a true, unhesitating faith, and they are willing to lay down the burden of e weary life, in the sure and certain hope of a blessed immortality.”

Death Certain Natural Poor Willing Quiet Approach Blessed Lays Burden Immortality Contemplating Weary Fanaticism Rapture Unbelief Dissolution Composure Delirious

Author:Robert Southey

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“Waiting times are growing times and learning times. As you quiet your heart, you enter His peace...as you sense your weakness, you receive His strength...as you lay down your will, you hear His calling.”

Heart Waiting Growing Calling Quiet Weakness Lays

Author:Roy Lessin

“But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.”

Men Company Solitude Quiet Lays Lust Heat Ashes

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.”

Men Trying Might Used Risk Trouble Quiet Fellows Lays Folks Damage Cant

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.”

Sky Cold Quiet Moon Blue Lays Ice Village Frozen Blades Skirts Kimonos

Book:Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

Long Moments Eye Lost Voice Youth Quiet Lays Sunny Quiet Moments Lost Youth Ashley Wilkes

Book:Gone With The Wind: American Literature

Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature

“I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.”

Knows Way Stills Body Happens Air Stupid Cry Goes On Quiet Breaths Lays Hiding Throat Screws Lungs Starving Being Quiet

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me”

Long Eye Wind Quiet Lays Blow Grass Long Grass

Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”

Long Stills Ends Whole Earth Faces Sleep Saws Fronts Expression Quiet Army Lays Western Calm Sentences Glad Fallen Reports Confined October Single Sentence

Author:Erich Maria Remarque