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To the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Anger
- Enemies
Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are.
TMThomas Merton1915–1968Letter to Dorothy Day (20 December 1961).
- Enemies
- Love
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XIXIn context
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
William Morris1834–1896A Dream of John Ball (1886), Ch. 4: The Voice of John Ball
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
HNHoward W. NewtonOften credited to Isaac Newton
- Enemies
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anaïs Nin1903–1977March 1937
It is right to learn even from an enemy.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Metamorphoses (Transformations), Book IV, 428
- Enemies
Let love steal in disguised as friendship.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book I, line 720; translated by J. Lewis May in The Love Books of Ovid, 1930
- Love
A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.
APAnn D. Parrish
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal1623–1662
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal.
William Penn1644–1718More Fruits of Solitude (1702), nos. 127–134
- Life & Death
Friends have all things in common.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Phaedrus, 279cIn context
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
- Anger
- Enemies
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift (14 December 1725)
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Letter to Henry Cromwell (19 October 1709)
- Animals