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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.

    Men   Weakness   Enmity  
  • But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

    Mean   Pride   Men  
    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law

    Law   Enemy   Enmity  
  • Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.

    Sweet   Lying   Eye  
    William Shakespeare, James N. Loehlin (2002). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.136, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Lying   Believe   Men  
  • Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

    John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.
  • As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

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

    Hate   Eye   Hatred  
  • You are at enmity with yourself.

  • Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

    Order   Ideas   Enemy  
    Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197
  • At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

  • The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.234, Rowman & Littlefield
  • We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .

    Sister   Brother   Humble  
  • A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

    Gratitude   Joy   Taoism  
  • O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

    War   Night   Men  
    John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing
  • An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

    Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.137, Innovations and Information
  • Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

    Sex   Enmity   Spirit  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423
  • If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  • Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

  • No one heals himself by wounding another.

    Hurt   Healing   Saint  
  • I speak in the name of the entire German people when I assure the world that we all share the honest wish to eliminate the enmity that brings far more costs than any possible benefits. It would be a wonderful thing for all of humanity if both peoples would renounce force against each other forever. The German people are ready to make such a pledge.

    War   Names   People  
  • I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

    Enmity   Glory   Tyranny  
    John Hancock's Boston Massacre Oration, law2.umkc.edu. March 5, 1774.
  • Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.

    Important   Done   Enmity  
  • Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

    Wisdom   Block   Struggle  
    "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.
  • 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?

    Marriage   Fighting   Men  
  • But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

    Strong   Cities   House  
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”
  • Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc."

    War   Soul   Enmity  
  • To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

  • A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

    Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.341
  • Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and equal-minded towards all, treating all alike.

    Cousin   Brother   Self  
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