Quotes with foe-beset

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  • Aristophanes A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Edward Dahlberg A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Arlen Specter American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • John Gay An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • William Arthur Ward Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He makes no friends who never made a foe.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Shakespeare Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Anthony Hope His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
    Anthony Hope
    English writer (1863 - 1933)
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  • Brock Lesnar I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • William Blake I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Nicholas Breton I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of fiends, and empty purse.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • Anne Bronte I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anne Brontë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. III
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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