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

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Or close the wall up with our English dead!

In peace there 's nothing so becomes a man

As modest stillness and humility;

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger:

Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.

King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

And sheathed their swords for lack of argument.

King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,