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• A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

  Idries Shah

  Kings, Fear, Harm

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.22, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense!

  Jonathan Davis

  Kids, Two, Different

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• Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

  Edward Topsell

  Virtue, Force, Conclusion

  "The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents". Book by Edward Topsell, p. 756, 1653.

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• Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Fire, Circles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

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• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Snakes

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Fighting, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.653, Scholastic Inc.

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• I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic storms, a century sealed in a cave, a river of molten salt flowing down my throat. But never with you.

  Henry Rollins

  Falling In Love, Passion, Rivers

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• I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are predators. They are dangerous but it's cool to have strong and powerful pets.

  Tracy Morgan

  Strong, Powerful, Eels

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• I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

  Madeline Miller

  Heart, Cutting, People

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Looks, Mouths

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.79, Macmillan

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• We may anticipate a state of affairs in which two Great Powers will each be in a position to put an end to the civilization and life of the other, though not without risking its own. We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Two, Civilization, Risk

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• My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Names, Listening

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• The canyon country does not always inspire love. To many it appears barren, hostile, repellent - a fearsome mostly waterless land of rock and heat, sand dunes and quicksand, cactus, thornbrush, scorpion, rattlesnake, and agaraphobic distances. To those who see our land in that manner, the best reply is, yes, you are right, it is a dangerous and terrible place. Enter at your own risk. Carry water. Avoid the noonday sun. Try to ignore the vultures. Pray frequently.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Distance, Land

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• Many centuries ago, Oriental thinkers recognized that the mind is a constant mover and that it is next to impossible to stop it altogether. But one can learn to manage it by skillful use of the handle of control. They compared the mind to a jumping monkey. To intensify the image, they added that the monkey was maddened; then someone got him drunk; and finally, a scorpion bit him.

  Ervin Seale

  Jumping, Drunk, Mind

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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• Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
  In every bosom where her nest is made,
  Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
  And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Nests, Rage

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.68

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• I will now make a scorpion appear in Osama bin Laden's pants

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Pants, Osama Bin Laden

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Disease And Death

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks. The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time. --from poem Blood and Blossoms

  Aberjhani

  Mother, Children, Fall

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.9, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• My office is in a building in midtown Chicago. It's an older building, and not in the best of shape, especially since there was that problem with the elevator last year. I don't care what anyone says, that wasn't my fault. when a giant scorpion the size of an Irish wolfhound is tearing its way through the roof of your elevator car, you get real willing to take desperate measures.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Years, Desperate Measures

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.19, Penguin

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• It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.

  Don Marquis

  Men, Long, Desert

  Don Marquis (1950). “The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel”, Doubleday Books

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• I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

  John Podhoretz

  Thinking, Eric, Civility

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• I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in the Louise-Phillipe room. In one of the caskets you will find a scorpion, in the other, a grasshopper, both very cleverly imitated in Japanese bronze: they will say yes or no for you. If you turn the scorpion round, that will mean to me, when I return that you have said yes. The grasshopper will mean no... The grasshopper, be careful of the grass hopper! A grasshopper does not only turn: it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!

  Gaston Leroux

  Mean, Keys, Giving

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• You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion, and combust the skin... Now take the ash, which you got this way, and pepper it out on the fields.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Scary, Skins, Ashes

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• If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

  Thomas Brooks

  Strong, Heart, Men

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