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 ENEMY ENEMY Having well polished the whole bow, he added a golden tip. Homer—Iliad. Bk. IV. III. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 221 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = His father was no man's friend but his owne, and he (saith the prouerbe) is no man's foe else. Thomas Adams—Diseases of the Soul. (1616) P. 53. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Browne, Cicero, King, Longfel low) It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. Bias. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 221 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = We love him for the enemies he has made. Gen. Bragg—Nominating Speech for Cleveland at the Convention of 1884. Every man is his own greatest enemy, and as it were his own executioner. Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Same idea in Clarke—Paramiologia. (1639) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Adams) | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = 15 | text = Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many. Bulwer-Lytton—W hat Will He Do With It? Bk. LX. Ch. III. Introduction. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Emerson}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A weak Invention of the Enemy. Colley Cibber—Richard III. (Altered) Act V. Sc. 3. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Richard III.}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse. Man is his own worst enemy. Cicero—Emstolm ad Atticum. X. 12a. Sec. III. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Adams}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant. Let our friends perish,^ provided that our enemies fall at the same time. Cicero—Oratio Pro Rege Deitaro. IX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 221 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Emerson—Translations. From Omar Khayyam. Attributed to Ali Ben Abu Taleb. | seealso = (See also {{sc|O'Reilly, Bulwer-Lytton}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Our enemies will tell the rest with pleasure. Bishop Fleetwood—Preface to Sermons. Ordered burned by House of Commons 21 ((May, 1712) You and I were long friends; you are now my enemy, and I am yours. Benj. Franklin—Letter to William Stratum. (July 5, 1775) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor, He who hath mingled in the fray Of duty that the brave endure Must have made foes. If he has none Small is the work that he has done. He has hit no traitor on the hip; Has cast no cup from perjured lip; Has never turned the wrong to right; Has been a coward in the fight. Anastasius Grun. (Free Translation.)' Wee commonly say of a prodigall man that hee is no man's foe but his owne. Bishop John King—Lecture on Jonas, delivered 1594. (Ed. 1618) P. 502. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Adams}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi. Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend. Better is it to have a wise enemy. La Fontaine—Fables. 8, 10. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 221 }}