"When you don't forgive you permit your enemies to live rent free in your head -evict them today."
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"We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose."
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"Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy."
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"If I'm ever feeling uninspired, all I have to do is go see Exodus or Arch Enemy, and think 'Oh yeah, that's what we're doing this for.'"
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"Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable."
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"The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
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"Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them."
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"If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good."
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"To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them."
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"They were like two enemies in love with one another."
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"Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy."
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"Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition."
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"I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me."
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"The enemies inside us: Indifference, Indecision, Doubt, Worry, and Over-caution."
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"Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live."
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"it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends."
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"Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it."
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"It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas."
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"An enemy is indeed a precious teacher."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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