Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can alter or forsake,
Who for inconstant roving have no power,
And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take. [ Mrs. Norton ]

How well he fell asleep!
Like some proud river, widening toward the sea;
Calmly and grandly, silently and deep,
Life joined eternity. [ S. T. Coleridge ]

He that can reply calmly to an angry man is too hard for him. [ Proverb ]

The silent snow possessed the earth, and calmly fell our Christmas-eve. [ Tennyson ]

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. [ Bacon ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

Prepare the soul calmly to obey; Such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. [ Metastasio ]

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not. [ Fenelon ]

In Nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. [ Bacon ]