Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power.
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all
her paths are peace.
Proverbs. III. 17.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalms. LXXXV. 10.
Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity
within thy palaces.
Psalms. CXXII. 7.
People are always expecting to get peace in
heaven: but you know whatever peace they get
there will be ready-made. Whatever making of
peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth
here.
Ruskin—The Eagle's Nest. Lecture IX.
If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it
is no longer peace.
Lord John Russell—Speech at Greenoch.
Sept., 1853.
i Es kann der Frommste nicht im Frieden bleiben,
Wenn es dem bosen Nachbar nicht gefallt.
The most pious may not live in peace, if
it does not please his wicked neighbor.
Schiller—Wilhelm Tell. IV. 3. 124.
All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct;
and you may avoid that too, with an If. I knew
when seven justices could not take up a quarrel,
but when the parties were met themselves, one
of them thought but of an If, as, "If you said so
then I said so" ; and they shook hands and swore
brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker;
much virtue in If.
As You Like It. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 100.
That it should hold companionship in peace
With honour, as in war; since that to both
It stands in like request.
Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 49.
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.
Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 89.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility.
Peace,
Dear nurse of arts, plenties and joyful births.
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
To silence envious tongues.
Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 445.
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace,
By this one bloody trial of sharp war.
Richard III. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 15.
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
Sonnet LXXV.
When it is peace, then we may view again
With new-won eyes each other's truer form
And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm
We'll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain
When it is peace. But until peace, the storm
The darkness and the thunder and the rain.
Charles Sorley—To Germany.
Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the
whole world forever.
Charles Sumner—Oration on the True
Grandeur of Nations.
In this surrender—if such it may be called—
the National Government does not even stoop
to conquer. It simply lifts itself to the height
of its original principle. The early efforts of its
best negotiators, the patriotic trial of its soldiers
. . . may at last prevail.
Charles Sumner. Sustaining President Lincoln in the U. S. Senate, in the Trent Affair.
Jan. 7, 1862.
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| text = <poem>Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus
imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem
appellant.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy.
When they have made the world a solitude,
they call it peace.
Tacitus—Agricola. XXX. Ascribing the
speech to Galgacus, Britain's leader against
the Romans.
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| text = <poem>Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari.
A peace may be so wretched as not to be
ill exchanged for war.
Tacitus—Annates. III. 44.
Bellum magis desierat, quam pax cceperat.
It wis rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
Tacitus—Annates. IV. 1.
Peace the offspring is of Power.
Bayard Taylor—A Thousand Years.
No more shall * * * Peace
Pipe on her pastoral hillock a languid note,
And watch her harvest ripen.
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| work = Maud. St. 28.
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Peace with honor.
Theobald, Count of Champagne—Letter to
King Louis the Great. (1108-1137) See
Walter Map—Be Nugis Curialium. (Ed.
Camden Society. P. 220.) Sm Kenelm
Digby—Letter to Lord Bristol, May 27,
1625. See his Life, pub. by Longmans.
Same in Coriolanus. III. II.
