None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
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| text = <poem>My nearest
And dearest enemy.
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Life. Act V. Sc. 1.
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| text = <poem>What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
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The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide;
But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.
John Boyle O'Reilly—Distance.
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| text = His enemies shall lick the dust.
Psalms. LXXII. 9.
Invents par le caloumnateur ennemy.
Invented by the calumniating enemy.
Rabelais—Pantaoruel. Bk. III. 11.
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| text = <poem>Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis;
On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis.
Artifice is allowable in deceiving a rival, we
may employ everything against our enemies.
Richelieu—Les Tuilenes.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Romans. XII. 20.
In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh
The enemy more mighty than he seems;
So the proportions of defence are fill'd;
Which of a weak and niggardly projection
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting
A little cloth.
Be advis'd;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running.
Henry VIII. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 139
I do believe,
Induced by potent circumstances, that
You are mine enemy; and make my challenge
You shall not be my judge.
Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 76.
That you have many enemies, that know not
Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,
Bark when their fellows do.
Henry VIII. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 158.
O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook!
I do defy him, and I spit at him;
Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:
Which to maintain I would allow him odds,
And meet him, were I tied to run afoot
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps.
Richard II. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 60.
A thing devised by the enemy.
Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 306.
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| text = <poem>It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage.
Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 205.
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven
Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends
can do good.
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| text = <poem>Le corps d'un ennemi mort sent toujours bon.
The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
Attributed to Vespasian and Charles IX. of France.
Je vais, combattre les ennemis de votre majeste, et je vous laisse au milieu des miens.
I have fought your Majesty's enemies, and
I now leave you in the midst of my ow n.
Makechal de Villabs to Louis XIV, before
starting for the Rhine Army. The French
Ana. Attributed to Voltaire by Duvemet—Vie de Voltaire.
Les dons d'un ennemi leur semblainte trop a craindre.
To them it seemed that the gifts of an enemy were to be dreaded.
Voltaire—Henriade. Ch. II.
ENGLAND
England! my country, great and free!
Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
Bailey—Festus. Sc. The Surface. L. 376.
Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation
of shopkeepers—(Nation Boutiquiere).
Said by Barrere, June 16, 1794 before the National Convention. Attributed to Napoleon—Scott's Life of Napoleon. Claimed as a saying of Francis II. to Napoleon.
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| text = <poem>Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,
Goddam! j'aime les anglais.
In spite of their hats being very ugly,
Goddam! I love the English.
Ah! la perfide Angleterre!
Ah! the perfidious English!
Bossuet—Sermon on the Circumcision, preached at Metz. Quoted by Napoleon on leaving England for St. Helena,
