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• Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  His Love, Vanquish, Rescue

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• Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

  Emily Bronte

  Angel, Wrinkles, Doubt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.408, Penguin

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• The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes." "The whole of the realm denies it, brother," said Renley. "Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in their mothers' wombs. They deny it in Dorne and they deny it on the Wall. No one wants you for their king. Sorry.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Secret, Underrated

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

  Hank Green

  Opposites, Bravery, Faces

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• The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

  Hannah Kent

  Treachery

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stars, Eye, Dark

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• I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.

  Rajneesh

  Life And Love, Love Is, Doe

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• Are we friends? or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!

  Eiichiro Oda

  Kind

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• Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stepped, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears- 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.' -Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Colleen Houck

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.

  Dorothy Parker

  Faith, Needs, Littles

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Two, Southern

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• The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is within us. Therefore, the solution is within us too. However, that inner change does not take place immediately in the way that we switch on a light, but takes weeks, months and years.

  Dalai Lama

  Light, Years, Meditation

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• So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Thick, Seclusion

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.7, SCM Press

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• Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Fundamentalist

  "Warren Buffett's 23 Most Brilliant Insights About Investing" by Sam Ro, www.businessinsider.com. August 31, 2014.

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• He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

  John Ray

  Wise, Wisdom

  John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.195

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• Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale,' Sayna said. 'That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

  Jim Butcher

  Love, Hero, Dark

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• This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade.

  John Quincy Adams

  Peace, Freedom, Blow

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• Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!

  Adolf Hitler

  Prayer, Home, Years

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Wine, Friendless

  Herman Melville (2015). “Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: Works of Melville”, p.201, 谷月社

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• The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you
  to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation's destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The
  principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

  Frederick Douglass

  Gratitude, 4th Of July, Pride

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

  Emma Goldman

  Personality, Mind, Century

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• To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more.

  Thomas Browne

  Sleep, Arrows, Evil

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Urn-burial, Christian morals, Miscellanies, Correspondence, etc”, p.131

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