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He who LIVES by the sword dies by the sword
Other weapons may be substituted for
the sword
, as in quot. 1997. With allusion to
MATTHEW
xxvi. 52 (AV) All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword; cf.
1601
A. MUNDAY et al.
Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington
L1 Alas for woe: but this is iust heauens doome On those that liue by bloode: in bloode they die.
1652
Complete Writings
(1963) IV. 352
All that take the Sword .. shall perish by it.
1804
Diary & Letters
(1889) II. xlv.
To quote the text, ‘Those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword’.
1916
Greenmantle
vi.
I did not seek the war … It was forced on me …He that takes the sword will perish by the sword.
1978
Were He Stranger
xiii.
Mark me, Sydney, he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.
1997
Washington Post
12 Mar. B1
Wallace's friends, with whom he had sold dope out of a garbage can.., had pretty much summed up the situation in a sentence: ‘When you live by the gun, you die by the gun.’
retribution
He that LIVES in hope dances to an ill tune
1591
Second Fruits
149
This argument of yours is lame and halting, but doo not you knowe that. He that dooth liue in hope, dooth dance in narrowe scope.
1640
Outlandish Proverbs
no. 1006
Hee that lives in hope danceth without musick.
1732
Gnomologia
no. 2224
He that liveth in Hope, danceth without a Fiddle.
1977
Five Minute Marriage
ii.
‘He that lives in hope danceth to an ill tune,’ remarked Mrs. Andrews, who was full of proverbs.
disappointment
;
hope and despair

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