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Peace.

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01In print by 1896 AD

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any fondness for war, and I have never advocated it except as a means of peace.

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

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02c. 1425 AD

First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

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03c. 1842 AD

For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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04c. 1790 AD

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

Goethe / quote

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05In print by 1893 AD

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

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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06c. 1810 AD

Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, / Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, / Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends.

William Wordsworth / quote

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07In print by 1893 AD

Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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08c. 1790 AD

In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace, but everybody must govern; in art, nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Goethe / quote

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09In print by 1893 AD

In the world-strife now waging, the victory cannot be by violence; and every conquest under the Prince of War retards the standards of the Prince of Peace.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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10In print by 1893 AD

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace cannot be had in this world.

Jeremy Taylor (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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11c. 1777 AD

It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, / That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; / The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's the chiefest warld's treasure!

Robert Burns / quote

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12c. 1777 AD

It's no in titles nor in rank; / It's no in wealth like London bank, / To purchase peace and rest: / It's no in makin' muckle mair, / It's no in books, it's no in lear, / To mak' us truly blest.

Robert Burns / quote

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13c. 1751 AD

Let the foibles of the great rest in peace.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

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14c. 1777 AD

Light is the burden love lays on; / Content and love brings peace and joy, / What mair hae queens upon a throne?

Robert Burns / quote

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15c. 1425 AD

No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

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16In print by 1893 AD

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin—victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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17c. 1842 AD

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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18c. 1790 AD

Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace.

Goethe / quote

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19In print by 1893 AD

Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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20In print by 1893 AD

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven; but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever of making peace they can be blest for must be on the earth here.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

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21c. 1662 AD

Philosophy has given several plausible rules for attaining peace and tranquillity, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it.

John Tillotson / quote

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22c. 1425 AD

Speak not peace to thyself when beset on every side with numerous and restless enemies.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 1819 AD

The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will.

Walter Savage Landor / quote

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