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• Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I'm needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.

  Joan Collins

  Thinking, Time Keeping, Skins

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• Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

  Cyril Connolly

  Christian, Atheism, Redemption

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• It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.

  Jonathan Davis

  Want, Might, Window

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• I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

  Cameron Diaz

  Iron, Maidens, Courses

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• Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

  Havelock Ellis

  Skills, Adequate, Chance

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.15, Elsevier

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• Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Art, Bears, Glory

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Reading, Ignorance

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• While Socrates empties the cup of poison with unshaken soul,Christ exclaims,'If it is possible, let this cup pass from me'.Christ in this respect is the self- confession of human sensibility.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Self, Soul, Cups

  Ludwig Feuerbach (1855). “The Essence of Christianity”, p.90

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• O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level, And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil, And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Memories, Spring, Air

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.350, Pearson Education

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• Lachrymal counsellors, with one foot in the cave of despair, and the other invading the peace of their friends, are the paralyzers of action, the pests of society, and the subtlest homicides in the world; they poison with a tear; and convey a dagger to the heart while they press you to their bosoms.

  Jane Porter

  Heart, Feet, Tears

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• I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.

  Anais Nin

  Blow, Suffering Of Others, Miracle

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• Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Light, Evil, Giving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.366, Head of Zeus

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• The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we drink in every night.

  John Piper

  Night, Apples, Pie

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.17, SPCK

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• The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Inward, Flow

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

  Alfred Nobel

  Worry, Stomach, Worst

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• ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wall, Cutting

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• Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

  Samuel Johnson

  Desire, Vipers, Chill

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.416

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• All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

  Rumi

  Desire, Heal, Abandon

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• No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

  Derrick Jensen

  Civilization, Mass Extinction, Matter

  Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.87, Seven Stories Press

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• Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spring, Heart, Roots

  Blaise Pascal (1829). “Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects”, p.91

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• The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Weed, Men, Air

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

  Paracelsus

  Remedy, Dose, Differentiate

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• Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Medicine, Enemy, Use

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• [To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Speaking Up, Wife, Hecklers

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• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealousy, Dog, Mad

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.294

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