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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Family, Children, Living

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

Love, Work, Temple, Joy

"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

Wisdom, Grave

"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

People, Drinking, Spring, Water

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Dream, Memory, Today, Tomorrow

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

Love, Beauty, Truth, Kings

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

Wisdom, Road

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

Life, Children, Daughters, Longing

"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

Attitude, Life, Living, Mind

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

Zeal,

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"I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is."

Shana Alexander, American Journalist

Enemy, Man, Woman

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Saul Alinsky, American Activist

Enemy, Freedom

"My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years."

Margaret Anderson, American Editor

Enemy, Reality, Years

"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."

Antisthenes, Greek Philosopher

Enemy, Enemies, Faults, First

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."

Aristophanes, Greek Poet

Enemy, Enemies

"Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters."

Raymond Aron, French Philosopher

Enemy, Enemies, Future

"No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves."

Francis of Assisi, Italian Saint

Enemy, Harm

"The last of our enemies is laid low."

Clement Attlee, English Leader

Enemy, Enemies

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Enemy, Man, Revenge

"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."

Douglas Bader, British Soldier

Enemy, Flying