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“At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.”

Soul Home Names Peace Party Cease Hateful

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.”

Ifs Men World Humans Persons Long Soul Home Spiritual Joy Peace Silence Solitude Spring Depth Forgotten Happy Cease Contact Spiritual Life Locked Fullness True Life True Person

Author:Thomas Merton

“In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.”

War Reason Force Peace Fire Sweet Gun Cease Inches Dictator Syria Jersey New Jersey Lebanon Proxy

Author:William Safire

“We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.”

Country Peace Fire Demand Cease Compromise Borders Troops Unconditional Closing Withdrawal

Author:Petro Poroshenko

“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”

Earth Peace Lays Cease Staring Pondering Euclid

Book:The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.”

Earth Jesus Names Peace Grace Masters Kings Honor Sorrow Thousand Glory Ears Praise Spread Tongue Cease Triumph Charm Sinner Gracious Redeemer

Book:Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

Source: Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley

“Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.”

“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”

World War Political Peace Baby Cease Glands Adrenal Glands

Author:H. L. Mencken

“We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.”

War States Desire Peace Growth Cease Anti War Antiwar Decrease Weakening

Book:Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

Source: Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers

“When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.”

People Men Country Action Evil Peace Struggle Cease Good People Vigilance Evil Man Good Against Evil

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”

Thinking Heart Peace Sound Half Talking Solitude Lips Cease Pastime Diversion

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet