"Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety."
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"It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire."
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"Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend."
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"In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body."
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"It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
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"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will."
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"Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
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"It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends."
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"Forgive your enemies, but first get even."
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"None but yourself who are your greatest foe."
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"Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach."
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"I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust."
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"An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing our thoughts to cling to outward things, things that will pass away."
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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions."
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"Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be."
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"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer."
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"The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?"
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"When a chivalrous man makes an oath, he is faithful to it, and when he attains power, he spares his enemy."
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"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life."
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"The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided."
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