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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Peace |
| I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun. Shakespeare.—King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1. | 1 |
| Peace, sit you down, And let me wring your heart: for so I shall, If it be made of penetrable stuff. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. | 2 |
| Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Collins.—Eclogue II. Line 68. Hassan. | 3 |
| Ah! when shall all men’s good Be each man’s rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land? Tennyson.—The Golden Year. | 4 |
| And white-robed innocence from Heaven descend. Pope.—Messiah, Line 20. | 5 |
| Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; “Think nothing gain’d,” he cries, “till nought remain.” Dr. Johnson.—Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 201. | 6 |
| And, without breathing, man as well might hope For life, as, without piety, for peace. Dr. Young.—Night VIII. Line 689. | 7 |
| Peace Chloris, peace! or singing die, That together you and I To Heaven may go: For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is that they sing and that they love. Waller.—A Song, last verse. | 8 |
| Against the king, his crown, and peace, And all the statutes in that case. Edward Moore.—Trial of Selim. | 9 |
| When peace, though but a scanty pause for breath, A curtain-drop between the acts of death. Campbell.—Theodoric. | 10 |
| Peace hath her victories No less renown’d than war. Milton.—Sonnet XVI. Line 10. | 11 |
| And now gentlemen, “Pax vobiscum!” As the Ass said to the cabbages. Longfellow.—The Spanish Student, Act I. Sc. 2. | 12 |
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