be calm
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Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.