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• Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.

  Martyn

  Christian, People, Hatred

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• Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in the world Jewish and Gentile...I do not believe that this primal difference between Gentile and Jew is reconcilable...The difference between us is abysmal...You might say: 'Well, let us exist side by side and tolerate each other. We will not attack your morality, nor you ours.' But the misfortune is that the two are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. No man can accept both, or, accepting either, do otherwise than despise the other.

  Maurice Samuel

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Friendship, Dread

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason. ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind.

  William Harvey

  Men, Law, Long

  "The Works of William Harvey, M.D". Book by Robert Willis, "The Life of Harvey", 1847.

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• War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, War, Violence

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• I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy.

  Clarence Day

  Bullying, School, Unique

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• The potter is at enmity with the potter.

  Hesiod

  Business, Potters

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• Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Character, Opportunity

  Joseph Addison (1839). “Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste”, p.46

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• 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. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.97, SCM Press

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• Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Helping, Daily Life, Ancient

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• Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Fighting, Men

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• The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

  Stephen Baxter

  Cutting, Past, Envy

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• Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Adversity, Men

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1986, Delphi Classics

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• We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Substance, Our Love

  The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The

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• The sight of snow made her think how beautiful and short life is and how, in spite of all their enmities, people have so very much in common; measured against eternity and the greatness of creation, the world in which they lived was narrow. That's why snow drew people together. It was as if snow cast a veil over hatreds, greed, and wrath and made everyone feel close to one another. -- Snow pg 119

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Short Life, Greatness

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• Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

  Eiichiro Oda

  Law, Enemy, Hats

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• To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

  Saadi

  Hate, Eye, Hatred

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• We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Heart, Enemy

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Soul, Agitation

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• When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

  Edward A. Pollard

  War, Blood, Ink

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• Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

  Joseph Joubert

  Today, Emotion, Good Things

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• There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

  Tom Wicker

  Men, Weakness, Politician

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• You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Believe, Two

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• Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Mind, Next, Humans

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2048, Delphi Classics

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