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«Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.»
Author: John C. Calhoun
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«[About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as a war than an adventure. Susan thrived best in the presence of an adversary. ... You learned that you were not her adversary if she'd chosen you as a friend. She taught me as a friend the strength of dealing with adversity. Her last adversary was the struggle with death itself.»
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«And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: / And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.»
«And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.»
«And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the LORD had shut up her womb.»
«And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; / Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: / And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.»
«Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.»
«And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.»