"Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die."
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"Anger is my biggest enemy in life."
"You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves."
"Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity."
"Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy."
"The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you."
"He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God."
"We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies."
"the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!"
"I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend."
"I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?"
"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."
"Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love."
"Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend."
"Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success."
"Government is the enemy until you need a friend."
"What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
"The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
"When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies."
"You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers."