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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition


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I die adoring God,loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VOLTAIRE You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am to...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH God save me from my friends - I can protect myself from my enemies.
PROVERB May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
VOLTAIRE I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not stopping till my enemies become my friends.
AMIT KALANTRI Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professor...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the goo...
WESTBROOK PEGLER Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN All are my friends. I have no enemies.
MAHAVIRA I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my godd...
WARREN G. HARDING Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
D'HERICAULT Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies
CHARLES D'HERICAULT I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.
HENRY IV I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends
WALT WHITMAN I have lived long enough to see God make my enemies my footstool not even footsteps.
PATIENCE JOHNSON They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
...
BRIAN YORKEY Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
ROBERT GREENE Protect me from my friends
I can take care of my enemies
LIL WAYNE Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Instead of loving your enemies -- treat your friends a little better.
EDWARD W. HOWE Let me die the moment my love dies.
Let me not outlive my own capacity to love.
Let me d...
MARY ZIMMERMAN Everyone reads Harper Lee personally. For me, 'Mockingbird' was about admitting my own hyphe...
MARGARET STOHL I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking ...
OSCAR LEVANT Not all things have to be scrutinized, nor all friends tested, not all enemies exposed and denounced
SPANISH PROVERB I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...
OSCAR WILDE I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...Th...
WARREN G. HARDING I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. The...
WARREN HARDING I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. The...
WARREN GAMALIEL HARDING I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...
OSCAR WILDE May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.
GEORGE S. PATTON JR. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies...
OSCAR WILDE I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha...
DAVE EGGERS Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.
DON RICKLES I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and lovi...
KEVIN HART There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop...
JANE AUSTEN I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we ar...
ALAN PATON In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
VOLTAIRE I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into ...
MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.
SIR THOMAS BROWNE When I die, I give my friends permission to change my facebook status to "is dead
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in respo...
VOLTAIRE I think what?s so special is it?s personal. It?s my gift done with my loving friends.
BARBARA FERGUSON Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age - Have left me...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
BIBLE My wife, my family, my friends-they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Satan will always whisper don't care, be silent, you didn't do anything wrong, your better than them...
SHANNON L. ALDER Here is one with a gift for loving and a gift for hating, and when he hates, God help the man who ea...
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF You know, maybe we don't need enemies."
"Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
BILL WATTERSON I was out loving life instead of in some office hating it
DESMOND ONG Harlot friends;Simply means,"we are good friends today because of my interest,but tomorrow if my int...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Enemies disguise as friends and friends as enemies.
SOMAN CHAINANI My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to...
CARLA HALL God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.
VOLTAIRE teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r...
NICHOLAS SPARKS My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) If I were in his situation, I think I'd want to run some of my ideas by some friends, and even enemi...
JOE BARNHART Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin...
JAMES NESBITT Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God lov...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If any man hates me,he is the luckiest person in the world,because I always pray for my enemies.
JOSEPH BOAZ The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
REBECCA WEST My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name...
SUSAN EE O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would no...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And...
VOLTAIRE I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And...
VOLTAIRE I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him...
LAUREN OLIVER I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.
LINDA ROBINSON It's tough when loving family and friends die. It's a shame, but he's in a better place now.
JEFF KIRK Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my m...
C.S. LEWIS Don’t be hating on my peacock. It’s just not right. - Kye
KRISTA ALASTI My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.
STEVEN HERRICK I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother...
TAYE DIGGS I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends bec...
RUSSIAN PROVERB I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned t...
ALAN PATON It's not about what my enemies can do to my body,
it's more about what they can't do to my soul...
JOHN C PARK III I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.&#...
VOLTAIRE To die hating them, that was freedom.
GEORGE ORWELL The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER The water horses are hungry and wicked, vicious and beautiful, hating us and loving us.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my...
ANA MONNAR I would die for my country . . . but I would not let my country die for me.
NEIL KINNOCK Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me n...
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