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Wranglers never want words.

Traditional · English / proverb

Meaning: A person intent on continuing a quarrel can keep finding things to say. The saying questions argument sustained for its own sake, without making disagreement, persistence or a request for explanation automatically unreasonable.

02c. 1847 AD

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Charles Kingsley / quote

03c. 1425 AD

All the glory and beauty of Christ are manifested within, and there He delights to dwell; His visits there are frequent, His condescension amazing, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and the peace that He brings passeth all understanding.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

04c. 1842 AD

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

05c. 1641 AD

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war.

John Milton / quote

06c. 1801 AD

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

07c. 1790 AD

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Goethe / quote

08c. 172 BC

All these inconveniences are incidents to love: reproaches, jealousies, quarrels, reconcilements, war, and then peace.

Terence / quote

09c. 1808 AD

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the State. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Robert Southey / quote

10c. 1806 AD

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson / quote

11c. 1837 AD

Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.

Abraham Lincoln / quote

12c. 75 BC

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace.

Cicero / quote

13c. 1662 AD

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

John Tillotson / quote

14c. 1829 AD

Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

15c. 1765 AD

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

George Washington / quote

16c. 1807 AD

O, brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother, where pity dwells, the peace of God is there.

John G. Whittier / quote

17In print by 1896 AD

Look carefully that love to God and obedience to His commands be the principle and spring from whence thy actions flow; and that the glory of God and the salvation of thy soul be the end to which all thy actions tend; and that the word of God be thy rule and guide in every enterprise and undertaking. "As many as walk by this rule, peace be unto them, and mercy."

Burkitt (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

18In print by 1896 AD

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age.

Bishop Horne (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19In print by 1896 AD

I never advocated war except as a means of peace.

U.S. Grant (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

20In print by 1896 AD

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul—to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.

Chapin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

21In print by 1896 AD

Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.

Jeremy Taylor (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

22In print by 1896 AD

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

23In print by 1896 AD

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24In print by 1896 AD

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Colton (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote