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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love Nature Day Child

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

God Man Mind Tyranny

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Nature Sky Religion Happy

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Society Men Through Another

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life Sad History Man

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Too Much Who He Rule

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

Kindness Sun Misunderstanding Ice

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

Looking Feelings Enemy Help

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

World Hatred Petty Fires

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Stanley

God Me Trust You

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There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Racism You Religion Parents

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

Simple Hatred Were Disgust

Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won over. It only means that one has ceased to constitute a threat.

Never Enemies Thought Only

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Today You People Long

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.

Me Men Brave Army

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

Nature Family Communism Nothing

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

William Goldman

Wife Never Your She

Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

Time You Woman Black

Enmity means 'hatred toward, hostility to, or a state of opposition.' It is the power by which Satan wishes to reign over us.

Ezra Taft Benson

Power Wishes Satan Hatred

I have often thought that one of the less attractive traits of various professional bodies and institutions is the deeply ingrained suspicion and outright hostility which can exist towards anything unorthodox or unconventional.

Professional Thought Attractive Exist

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

Dead He Writer Generate

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Comedy Think Authority Through

When I started knocking on Highland doors in May 1983, two things struck me more than any other. First was the sheer depth of hostility towards the Tories in general. Second was the particular hostility towards Margaret Thatcher and her local ministerial spear-carrier, energy minister and incumbent MP of 13 years' standing, Hamish Gray.

Charles Kennedy

Me Energy Doors More

Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Life Work Science Will

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Loneliness Yourself Ocean Humanity

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