The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The triumphs of peace have been in some proximity to war. Whilst the hand was still familiar with the sword-hilt, whilst the habits of the camp were still visible in the port and complexion of the gentleman, his intellectual power culminated the compression and tension of these stern conditions is a training for the finest and softest arts, and can rarely be compensated in tranquil times, except by some analogous vigor drawn from occupations as hardy as war.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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They have in themselves what they value in their horse, mettle and bottom
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