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• Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Brother, Secret, Vices

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• Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

  Fanny Burney

  Tranquility, Concealment

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• Heroism is not fighting some big battle. It is not standing up to some fearsome foe ... Heroism is every day getting up with a mission to show this world that you are going to light it up with your spirit, to make the best out of yourself.

  Cory Booker

  Fighting, Light, Battle

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• Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Struggle, Passion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.152

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• I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the '70s and '80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Scotland, Theatre, Looking Forward

  "The Good Wife's Archie Panjabi to appear on BBC One's Shetland" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. April 09, 2015.

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
  Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
  And so your follies fight against yourself.
  Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;
  And fight and die is death destroying death,
  Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Fighting, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.1097, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Negatives Make, Two

  William Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan (2000). “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.1211, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The earth yields up her stores, of every ill
  The instigators; iron, foe to man,
  And gold, than iron deadlier.

  Ovid

  Money, Men, Yield

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• He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.

  John Dryden

  Want, Praise, Dare

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.392

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• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  War, Blessing, Games

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• Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Broken, Promise, Sorrow

  Friedrich Schiller (1851). “The Poems of Schiller, Complete: Including All His Early Suppressed Pieces”, p.65

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• Dear is my friend--yet from my foe, as from my friend, comes good:
  My friend shows what I can do, and my foe what I should.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Friends, Should, Dear

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.142

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• As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Heart, Heaven, Darkness

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• And children know,
  Instinctive taught, the friend and foe.

  Walter Scott

  Children, Childhood, Taught

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.219, e-artnow

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• In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rights, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.92, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are an indebted family going out for an expensive meal to celebrate getting approved foe a new credit card. It might feel good (at the time), but we're still simply delaying the inevitable.

  Peter Schiff

  Feel Good, Meals, Going Out

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• Some of my favorite moments from The Vampire Diaries were from season 3. I found the storyline between Stefan and Klaus to be extremely compelling. It was a friend/foe type friendship, rooted in depth that took us back to the 1920s.

  Paul Wesley

  Vampire, Depth, Diaries

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Gifford Pinchot points out that in colonial and pioneer days the forest was a foe and an obstacle to the settler. It had to be cleared away... But [now] as a nation we have not yet come to have a proper respect for the forest and to regard it as an indispensable part of our resources-one which is easily destroyed but difficult to replace; one which confers great benefits while it endures, but whose disappearance is accompanied by a train of evil consequences not readily foreseen and positively irreparable.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Evil, Forests, Pioneers

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• That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

  Leon Trotsky

  Unions, Revolutionary, Existence

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, Black

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I don't know the fitness that Donald Trump possesses to be commenting on other people's heroism. The most lethal foe that he is ever faced in his own life, I think was Rosie O'Donnell.

  James Rosen

  Thinking, People, Heroism

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• In the Old Testament, the God of the Prophets never was completely on Israel's side. There was a primitive national religion, but it was always a transcendent God who had judgment first in the House of God. This is the true religion. It has a sense of a transcendent majesty and a transcendent meaning so that that puts myself and the foe under the same judgment.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Israel, House, Majesty

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Martin Luther King was a radical democrat, by which I mean someone who is a foe of wealth inequality.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Mean, Wealth

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• You have to learn to trust - and listen to - your unconscious mind. If you pose the question to your unconscious "is this person a friend or a foe" - safe or a threat - your unconscious mind is hard-wired to assess that brilliantly for you. It's just that we're not very good at paying attention to what our unconscious minds are telling us.

  Nick Morgan

  Mind, Attention, Safe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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