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  • It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

  • As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

    Love   Pain   Poison  
    Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library
  • To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

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

    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
  • I go to a poison registry and I find that no one has died from any overdose of any vitamins, herbs, or amino acids... But FIVE THOUSAND people end up dying from drug reactions in a single year.

    Years   Medicine   People  
  • The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you.

    Fruit   Poison   Needs  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books
  • Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

    Poison   Synthesis   Woe  
    "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
  • This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

  • When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

    Hurt   Pain   Squares  
  • Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

    Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94
  • Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

    Dog   Fall   Wine  
  • The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

    Fire   Abiding   Poison  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.286, Penguin UK
  • Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

    Work   Long   Poison  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Love's Labor's Lost”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison seeped in. At first he couldn't even get up. He lay there under a heavy weight. But then only movment could save him, and he moved and he moved and he moved, no movement being enough to make up for it. The guilt on him, the hand of God pressing down on him, saying, You were not there when your daughter needed you.

    Daughter   Sleep   Hands  
  • Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

    Sadness   Soul   Poison  
  • Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

    Beautiful   Italian   Two  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2363, Delphi Classics
  • That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.

    Years   Trying   Poison  
    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

    Poison   Wealth   Nectar  
  • I am not against money - remember. Don't misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.

  • All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

    Hate   Poison   Ifs  
  • The surest poison is time.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.319, Рипол Классик
  • Jealousy can’t sour someone to this extreme, can it? (Aiden) It can and it does. Believe me. I’ve seen a lot worse than this in my billion or so years of existence – the first murder man committed was one brother against the other for no other reason than that one petty emotion. Jealousy turns to hatred which then turns to poison. It infects and it destroys until it eats someone alive. (Deimos)

    Brother   Believe   Men  
  • Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

    Attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).
  • If you get someone who looks after himself and those around him, that's a deep ecologist. He can talk philosophy that I understand. People like that don't poison things, they don't ruin things, they don't lose soils, they don't build things they can't sustain.

    Source: permaculturenews.org
  • It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that.

    Kindness   Block   Blow  
  • I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

  • Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

    Life   Buddhist   Men  
    Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

    Dog   Men   Poison  
    "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" l. 29 (1766)
  • Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage.

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