equablenimity

Updated: May 29, 2025

As our messmate Flinders used to say, `Be aisy, an' if ye can't be aisy, be as aisy as ye can. There's wot I calls sound wisdom in that." "Very true, Ben; nevertheless the sound wisdom in that won't avail to get us out o' this." "No doubt, but it'll help us to bear this with equablenimity while we're here, an' set our minds free to think about the best way o' makin' our escape."

R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne - The Battle and the Breeze