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• Remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Regret, Remorse

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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• She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

  Gail Carriger

  Fighting, Important, Ruffles

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• Laughter is poison to fear.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wise, Laughter, Fear

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.503, Bantam

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• A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

  Deb Caletti

  Princess, Snow, Gathering

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Color, Envy, Needs

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2012). “Gossip Girl 10: Would I Lie to You”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

  Christopher Paolini

  Evil, Might, Brisingr

  Christopher Paolini (2011). “Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr Omnibus”, p.747, Random House

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• The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Coward, Would Be, Weak

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• It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, Hours, Revolver

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.44, 1st World Publishing

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• When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

  Dale Carnegie

  Trying, Friendly, Needs

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.82, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.

  John Cage

  Food, Cooking, Delay

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.164, Wesleyan University Press

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• Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

  St. Jerome

  Children, Abortion, Three

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• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

  Anne Lamott

  Drinking, Waiting, Forgiving

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.120, Anchor

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• A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Littles, Euthanasia

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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• Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Children, Moving

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• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, War, Enemy

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.336, Routledge

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• We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Suicide, Military

  "Sahaf: U.S. troops will be burned". www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.

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• Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.

  Linda Goodman

  Retirement, Playgrounds

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• Tobacco surely was designed
  To poison, and destroy mankind.

  Philip Freneau

  Smoking, Mankind, Tobacco

  Poems, 'Tobacco'

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• And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest.

  Pat Condell

  Fear, Creativity, Race

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• It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man is strong enough to use it safely. The hatred we think we are directing against some person or thing or system has a devilish way of turning back upon us. When we seek revenge we administer slow poison to ourselves. When we administer affection it is astonishing what magical results we obtain.

  Thomas Dreier

  Love, Strong, Revenge

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• Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Attitude, Moving

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• Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

  Alice May

  Drinking, Hanging On, Resentment

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• If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to be thrown out. You have to go completely crazy to throw it out; otherwise that craziness remains inside you, and won't allow you to get into a silent, watching, witnessing meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Meditation, Mind

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