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Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house
full of sacrifices with strife. Prov 17:1
Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do
in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.
Prov 25:8
He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to
him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. Prov 26:17
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his
home.
Goethe
Who seeks a quarrel, finds it near at hand.
Italian Proverb
He who sows discord will reap regret.
Arabian Proverb
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Indian Proverb
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with
all men.
Rom 12:18
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto
all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those
that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2 Tim 2:24-25
Wranglers are never in the wrong.
Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion.
As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a
contentious man to kindle strife.
Prov. 26:21
In too much disputing, truth is lost.
Great disputing repels truth.
Beware of entrance into a quarrel.
W. S. Landor
Two canot fall out if one does not choose.
A quarrelsome man never lacks words.
A good man will as soon run into fire as a quarrel.
When two quarrel both are in the wrong.
The second blow makes the fray.
When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
Spanish proverb
Old quarrels and old charges are best left alone. Raise no
unsavory odors. If evil will die, let it die.
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Be not the first to make a quarrel, nor the last to make it up.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool
will be quarreling.
Prov. 20:3
Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the trait of all
quarrels.
Voltaire
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a
tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an
upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle
lighted in the heavest storms.
Baxter
Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy,
or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
Fuller
When two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise
man who lets the contest fall.
Plutarch
I never love those salamanders that are never well but when
they are in the fire of contention. -- I will rather suffer a
thousand wrongs than to offer one. -- I have always found that
to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal,
doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full
of unquietness.
Joseph Hall
The more quietly and peaceably we all get on, the better -- the
better for ourselves -- the better for our neighbors. In nine
cases out of ten the wisest policy is, if a man cheats you,
quit dealing with him; if he is abusive, quit his company; if
he slanders you, take care to live so that nobody will believe
him: no matter who he is, or how he misuses you, the wisest way
is generally to let him alone; for there is nothing better
than this cool, calm, quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we
meet with.
Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the
great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to
a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.
Bp. Patrick
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