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• Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

  Voltaire

  Theology

  "Teaching the Bible as Literature in Public High School (Part 9)" by Frank Breslin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2014.

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• Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Eye, Soul

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Excess, Body

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• I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.

  Charlotte Dacre

  Book, World, Subtle

  Charlotte Dacre (1997). “Zofloya”, p.25, Broadview Press

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• It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.

  Gordon Dahlquist

  War, Vision, Shadow

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• Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison from a hollow agate, some tender philter of death. But in our middle-class nosy era it would not have come off the way it used to in the brocaded palaces of the past. Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Past, Years, Class

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.154, Vintage

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• If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Milk And Honey, Soul, Return

  "Selections from the writings of ʻAbduʼl-Bahá". Book by `Abdu'l-Bahá, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rights, Forever, Pleasure

  1857 The Professor, ch.20.

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• It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

  Joe Meno

  Moving, Heart, Dark

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.114, Akashic Books

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• I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

  John Perry Barlow

  Expression, Support, Target

  "Analysis: WikiLeaks battle: a new amateur face of cyber war?" by Peter Apps, www.reuters.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Boy poison - a boy's kisses were like a poison, which infected you and after you were exposed you craved more, like an addict.

  Susan Minot

  Kissing, Boys, Exposed

  FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Feb 24, 2013

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• Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Venom, Malice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.827, 谷月社

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• All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Water, Substance

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Taken, Knives

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• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Believe, Army

  "A Plea for Caution From Russia" by Vladimir Putin, www.nytimes.com. September 11, 2013.

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• Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Expression, Looks

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.117, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

  Henry James

  Caring, Garden, Long

  Henry James (2016). “The Letters of Henry James”, p.298, The Floating Press

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• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

  Jean Anouilh

  House, Ships, Burglary

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• Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.

  Johann Arndt

  Men, Soul, Use

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, War, Be Patient

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• In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Expression, Blood

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• Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

  Johannes Brahms

  Jealousy, Hatred, Mind

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• Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Synthesis, Woe, Wonder

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

  Jean Cocteau

  Truth, Honor, Intuition

  "Moments of Clarity". Book by Thomas L. Jackson, March 31, 2002.

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• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Being Alone, Wine

  "Freedom". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1908.

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