If I may judge others by myself, the mere fact of being Unpoised, unresting, disables the mind from a thousand things that are joyfully relished by one entirely at ease."
"Queechy, Volume II"
Elizabeth Wetherell
In him who cultivates only the reason, and suffers the heart and the spirit to lie waste and dead, who schemes and constructs, and revolves round the axle of self, unwarmed by the affections, Unpoised by the attraction of right, lies the germ Fate might ripen into the guilt of Olivier Dalibard.
"Lucretia, Volume 6."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The thought Unpoised him.
"Bruce of the Circle A"
Harold Titus