Quotation by Shakespeare

But your discretions better can persuade
Than I am able to instruct or teach,
And therefore, as we hither came in peace,
So let us still continue peace and love.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. King Henry, in Henry VI, Part 1, act 4, sc. 1, l. 158-9.

Henry is trying to preserve peace among the quarrelling factions in England.
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