But the life of a small-town solicitor, absorbed by matters of conveyancing and probate, settled on Henry Beard an even greater tranquillity.
"I am sure that, when this reform is finally passed in the second legislative session next year, there will be greater tranquillity, more security, more peace, more joyfulness and more hope among the Nicaraguan people," he said during a speech marking the graduation of police cadets.
On Schopenhauer's view, the world of daily life is essentially violent and frustrating; it is a world that, as long as our consciousness remains at that level where the principle of sufficient reason applies in its fourfold root, will never resolve itself into a condition of greater tranquillity.
The historical situation is very different now, but we live in a society where people drove in the greatest possible tranquillity towards the edge of the cliff and then fell off it.
Quiet and tranquillity are great, and so is raucous, tumultuous togetherness, as long as you can alternate them every once in a while.
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The sign of the effect size reflects the benefit on health (positive effects indicate greater attention, energy and tranquillity but lower values for the other outcomes).
It's a nicely mixed time, an oasis of tranquillity, Manhattan's greatest luxury, that changes into a bazaar as the work day breaks, and millions are released to seek the evening's excitements.
They came of age during the Great Moderation, a period of macroeconomic tranquillity and intellectual consensus.
