Quote by John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. – John Ruskin

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. – Heraclitus

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Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. – Francesco Petrarch

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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. – Lord Chesterfield

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But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. – Bryan Ferry

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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. – George Grenville

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They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. – William Shakespeare

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity. – Eric Hoffer

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