A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser.

1317 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun.

1318 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Why prate of peace? when, warriors all, We clank in harness into hall, And ever bare upon the board Lies the necessary sword.

1319 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Woodman._

Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war.

1320 MILTON: Sonnet xvi.

Peace was on the earth and in the air.

1321 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30.

=Pearls.=

Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung.

1322 SIR WILLIAM JONES: _A Persian Song of Hafiz._

=Pen.=

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.

1323 BULWER-LYTTON: _Richelieu,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

1324 WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. ii.

=People.=

And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?

1325 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49.

=Perfection.=

One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun.

1326 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Perjury.=

At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.

1327 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Perseverance.=

Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.

1328 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Persuasion.=

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.

1329 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vii., Line 143.

=Petitions.=

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business.

1330 FIELDING: _Tom Thumb the Great,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Philosophy.=

How charming is divine Philosophy!

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.

1331 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 476.

=Physic.=

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.

1332 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

1333 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Piety.=

Why should not piety be made, As well as equity, a trade, And men get money by devotion, As well as making of a motion?

1334 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 295.

=Pilot.=

Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night!

There's danger on the deep.

1335 THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY: _The Pilot._

=Pines.=

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.