When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.
Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,_x000D_ _x000D_ Pass the days of life's short measure,_x000D_ _x000D_ From the slow one counsel take,_x000D_ _x000D_ But a tool of him ne'er make;_x000D_ _x000D_ Ne'er as friend the swift one know,_x000D_ _x000D_ Nor the constant one as foe.
We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
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 - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.
Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call To storm or fire the world must fall An oath to keep with a final breath and foes bear arms to the doors of death
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!
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