minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.
     easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm; quiet as a mouse; tranquil,
serene; cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard; undemonstrative.
     temperate &c. (moderate) 174; composed, collected; unexcited,
unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned; unoffended[obs3]; unresisting.
     meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive &c. 725; tame;
content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike[obs3]; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo[Lat]; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering. 
     Adv. “like patience on a monument smiling at grief” [Twelfth Night];
aequo animo[Lat], in cold blood &c. 823; more in sorrow than in anger. 
     Int. patience! and shuffle the cards. 
     Phr. “cool calm and collected”, keep calm in the midst of a storm;
“adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy” [Romeo and Juliet]; mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspecite [Lat][Seneca]; quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes [Lat][Horace]; “they also serve who only stand and wait” [Milton].

% Section II Personal Affections

1.  Passive Affections %

     #827.  Pleasure. —­ N. pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition;
oblectation, delectation, delection[obs3]; relish, zest; gusto &c. (physical pleasure) 377; satisfaction &c. (content) 831; complacency.
     well-being; good &c. 618; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion &c. 215;
sans souci[French:without worry], mind at ease.
     joy, gladness, delight, glee, cheer, sunshine; cheerfulness &c. 836.
     treat, refreshment; amusement &c. 840; luxury &c. 377.
     mens sana in corpore sano [Latin:  a sound mind in a sound
body][Juvenal].
     happiness, felicity, bliss; beatitude, beautification; enchantment,
transport, rapture, ravishment, ecstasy; summum bonum[Lat]; paradise, elysium &c. ( heaven) 981; third heaven|!, seventh heaven, cloud nine; unalloyed happiness &c.; hedonics[obs3], hedonism.
     honeymoon; palmy days, halcyon days; golden age, golden time; Dixie,
Dixie’s land; Saturnia regna[Lat], Arcadia[obs3], Shangri-La, happy valley, Agapemone[obs3]. 
     V. be pleased &c. 829; feel pleasure, experience pleasure &c. n.; joy;
enjoy oneself, hug oneself; be in clover &c. 377, be in elysium &c. 981; tread on enchanted ground; fall into raptures, go into raptures.
     feel at home, breathe freely, bask in the sunshine.
     be pleased &c. 829 with; receive pleasure, derive pleasure &c. n.
from; take pleasure &c. n. in; delight in, rejoice in, indulge in, luxuriate in; gloat over &c. (physical pleasure) 377; enjoy, relish, like; love &c. 897; take to, take a fancy to; have a liking for; enter into the spirit of.
     take in good part.
     treat oneself to, solace oneself with. 
     Adj. pleased &c. 829;