There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.
In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.