"Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought."
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"Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource."
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"The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy."
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"The enemy is always in the mind."
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"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."
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"My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
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"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
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"The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends."
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"By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root."
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"No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves."
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"Differences, we know, are never so effectually laid asleep as by some common calamity; an enemy unites all to whom he threatens danger."
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"Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive."
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"Perfect is the enemy of good."
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"Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses."
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"It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not."
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"We are saved by a man who died loving his enemies."
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"Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him."
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"The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you wish to save yourselves."
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"It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war."
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"Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?"
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