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Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.


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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Grudges are often worse enemies than pain.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Love your enemies and hate your friends, your enemies remain the same your friends always change
50 CENT The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.
JAMES D. SASS It is easy to remember your enemies, its easy to forget your friends
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ROBERT SILVERBERG It's an easy way to make enemies, talking about it.
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DAVID SOUTER I am sure I ought not to be, but I have great reason to tremble lest Satan and my own wicked heart g...
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JOSEPH STALIN Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them ha...
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JEFF WHEELER I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.
PATIENCE JOHNSON The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview
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ABERJHANI Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you
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AKIO TOYODA Judge not my passion, by my want of skill, Many love well, though they express it ill.
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ALICIA COPPOLA A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
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WILLA FITZGERALD Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
ELBERT HUBBARD You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS I do not fight with enemies, I try to help them and love them for their ignorance.
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EVA AMURRI Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
LAO TZU Judge not my passion, by my want of skill,
Many love well, though they express it ill.
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CLARA BARTON It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
DAVID MERRICK I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.
AMIT KALANTRI It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.
FRANK DANE Love your enemies. It makes them so damned mad.
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