Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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He who did well in war just earns the right

To begin doing well in peace.

Luria. Act ii.

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,

Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone,

While Northern thought is slow and durable.

Luria. Act v.

A people is but the attempt of many

To rise to the completer life of one;

And those who live as models for the mass