Enemies

His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's foe else.

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The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

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Your friends are three and your enemies are (also) three. Your friends are: your friend, your friend's friend and your enemy's enemy. And your enemies are: your enemy, your friend's enemy and your enemy's friend.

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There is only one thing more useful in politics than having the right friends, and that is having the right enemies.

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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

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I tell thee, be not rash; a golden bridge is for a flying enemy.

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You will learn to defeat the enemy. He will teach you how.

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If you persevere in your rancor, you do nothing but keep feeding yourself on poison.

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A reckless king will easily fall into the hands of his enemies. Hence the king shall ever be wakeful.

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The king who is situated anywhere immediately on the circumference of the conqueror's territory is termed the enemy.The king who is likewise situated close to the enemy, but separated from the conqueror only by the enemy, is termed the friend (of the conqueror).

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Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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A weak Invention of the Enemy.

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But a companion and a friend shall be turned to an enemy.

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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

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If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self.

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'Thou canst not joke an Enemy into a Friend; but thou may'st a Friend into an Enemy.

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Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

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You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

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Depend on me; never fear your enemies. Ill warrant We make more noise than they.

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A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

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The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends.

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The less you know about your enemies, the easier it is to project all your fantasies on to them. The closer you come to the other, the more you see the vulnerabilities, the paradoxes, the contradictions.

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Never fear your, enemies. A bold fight is the best: we should advance, and not retrograde.

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We have met the enemy and he is us.

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It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

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Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need—not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

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Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne.

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He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

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We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.

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He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

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The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one’s very nature as an offence.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence,And at another to let in the foe?

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We have met the enemy and they are ours—two ships, two brigs, one schooner and a sloop.

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If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

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Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

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I have political enemies, of course—men who, influenced by party feeling, are not above attacking methods and possibly my official reputation; but personal ones—wretches willing to stab me in my homelife and affections, that I can not believe. My life has been as an open book. I have harmed no man knowingly and, as far as I know, no man has ever cherished a wish to injure me.

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In cases of defence 'tis best to weighA little cloth.

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I do believe,You shall not be my judge.

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That you have many enemies, that know notBark when their fellows do.

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O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,With saints dost bait thy hook!

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I do defy him, and I spit at him;Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.

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A thing devised by the enemy.

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It will let in and out the enemyWith bag and baggage.

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No enemy is worse than bad advice.

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The Americans, my people, are our enemies.

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We need to think very, very clearly about who the enemy is. The enemy is the United States of America and everyone who supports it.

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To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice … you feel … in yourself.

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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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You can know an awful lot about an enemy if you know what he didn’t do as well as what he did do. If you figure out what you yourself should have done under the same circumstances, and know he didn’t do, why, that gives you some valuable hints as to his deficiencies.

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March 27. Still they come in, with about fifty more of the rebels. They look starved and wild, but here they will have enough to eat, and will be cared for as our own men. How strange it seems to see them lying so close to those whom they met so lately with bloody intent—now all powerless to harm them, even if rage had not died out in their hearts.

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.

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I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow.

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It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend.

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We love him for the enemies he has made.

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Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner.

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Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

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Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.

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He has no enemy, you say;Has been a coward in the fight.

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None but yourself who are your greatest foe.

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My nearestAnd dearest enemy.

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The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide;But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

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His enemies shall lick the dust.

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If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

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Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heavenContain my deadliest enemy and me.

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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

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