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tranquillity (n.)

Humility, that low, sweet root

From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): The Loves of the Angels. The Third Angel's Story.

  The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Diogenes Laertius (Circa 200 a d): Pyrrho. xi.

Tranquillity! thou better name

Than all the family of Fame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Ode to Tranquillity.