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His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the
prouerbe) is no man's for else.
Author: Thomas Adams
Source: Diseases of the Soul (p. 53)
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He has no enemy, you say;
My friend your boast is poor,
He who hath mingled in the fray
Of duty that the brave endure
Must have made foes. If he has none
Small is the work that he has done.
He has hit no traitor on the hip;
Has cast no cup from perjured lip;
Has never turned the wrong to right;
Has been a coward in the fight.
Author: Alexander Anton von Auersperg ("Anastasius Grun")
Source: a free translation
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Our friends, the enemy.
[Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
Author: Pierre Jean de Beranger
Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles
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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.
Author: Pierre Jean de Beranger
Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles
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They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his
enemies shall lick the dust.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. LXXII, v. 9)
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Therefore 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.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 20)
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They love him, gentlemen, and they respect him, not only for
himself, but for his character, for his integrity and judgment
and iron will; but they love him most for the enemies he has
made.
Author: General Edward Stuyvesant Bragg
Source: in a nominating speech for Cleveland at the Democratic Convention of 1884
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Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own
executioner.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici
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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.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: What Will He Do With It? (bk. IX, ch. III, introduction)
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A weak Invention of the Enemy.
Author: Colley Cibber
Source: Richard III (act V, sc. 3)
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Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistoloe ad Atticum (X, 12a, sec. III)
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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the
same time.
[Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Oratio Pro Rege Deitaro (IX)
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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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Translations--From Omar Khayyam
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Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure.
Author: Bishop William Fleetwood
Source: Preface to Sermons, ordered burned by the House of Commons
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is
enemy action.
Author: Ian Fleming
Source: Goldfinger, said by the character Auric Goldfinger
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You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am
yours.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Letter to William Strahan
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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: Letter to William Strahan
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Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but
his owne.
Author: Bishop John King
Source: Lecture on Jonas
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Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is
worth more.
[Fr., Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami;
Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (VIII, 10)
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None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 3)
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Michael Angelo (pt. II, 3)
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My nearest
And dearest enemy.
Author: Thomas Middleton
Source: Anything for a Quiet Life (act V, sc. 1)
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What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Author: John Milton
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your
king; and . . . you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson (ch. 3)
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