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• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Reality, Speech

  1911 Under Western Eyes, prologue.

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• The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

  Josiah Royce

  Lonely, Home, Heart

  Josiah Royce (2015). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.353, Courier Dover Publications

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  You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

  Joseph Conrad

  Friendship, Men, Judging

  Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34

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• There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

  Sandy Berger

  Country, Effort, United States

  "Will Bush forgive and forget?" by John King, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2004.

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• Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

  William Wycherley

  Revenge, Jealous, Sleep

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Conflict, Dangerous, Science And Religion

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• Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw.

  John McCrae

  Fall, Hands, Quarrels

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• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  F. H. Bradley

  Self, Would Be, Virtue

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Soul, Enemy

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.416, Discovery House

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• My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.

  Elizabeth I

  Hate, Wish, Demise

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.248, University of Chicago Press

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• We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

  William E. Gladstone

  Years, History, Stupidity

  In Margot Asquith 'More Memories' (1933) ch. 8

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• The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

  Thomas Huxley

  Political, Liberty, Politics

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.425, Cambridge University Press

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• An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Friendship, Presidential, Bitterness

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1792-1793”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Jesus, Character, Two

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• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Torches

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".

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• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

  Millard Fillmore

  Inspirational Life, Presidential, Would Be

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• I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

  Nicholas Breton

  Wish, Want, Purses

  'A Farewell to Town' (1577)

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• But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

  James Otis

  Thinking, Names, Soul

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• Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

  Aristophanes

  Friendship, Wall, War

  "Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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• A friend to honesty and a foe to crime

  Allan Pinkerton

  Honesty, Tombstone, Crime

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• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Anger, Enemy

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 1, l. 140

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• When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.

  William Shakespeare

  Crush, Fear, Giving

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• I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Military, War, Men

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• I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Men, Order

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