"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

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"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."

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"Peace is produced by war."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"World peace can be achieved only if there is nothing left to conquer."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"A man of peace shall always live in peace, if all chances are given and only shall he stand to fight for his rights if peace and freedom isn't granted to him."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Peace is peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Stop " Unplug " Escape " Enjoy.' This is the message of the Priory, and the key to enjoying a peaceful and rewarding life."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"To achieve peace,we needed to have a war to start with."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"At length the Lady Galadriel released them from her eyes, and she smiled. 'Do not let your hearts be troubled,' she said. 'Tonight you shall sleep in peace.' Then they sighed and felt suddenly weary, as those who have been questioned long and deeply, though no words had been spoken openly."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Appreciations promote inner peace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by John Ruskin

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

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"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

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"The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure."

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"I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful."

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"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

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"No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases."

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"Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions."

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"A book worth reading is worth buying."

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