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• Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

  Carrie Fisher

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  Carrie Fisher (2012). “Wishful Drinking”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• If you did not write every day, the poisons would accumulate and you would begin to die, or act crazy or both-you must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Writing, Reality

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• You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• If you got the poison, I've got the remedy.

  Jason Mraz

  Expression, Remedy, Ifs

  Song: The Remedy

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Whispering

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Success, Business, Inspiration

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• He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Sweet, Too Late

  "Hippolytus", CXXXIV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 464-484), 1922.

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• Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

  Rumi

  Mean, Men, Snakes

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• Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Tears, Made, Grows

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• For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Heart, Hatred

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• That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

  Francois Fenelon

  Self, Suffering, World

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• To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they

  Ben Okri

  Art, Stories, Conscious

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• Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

  Pythagoras

  Wise, Hate, Eye

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• I see the glass half full...but of poison.

  Woody Allen

  Glasses, Half, Glass Half Full

  "Scoop". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Avoid the poison in your life that brings you turmoil.

  Jean Vanier

  Turmoil

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• Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

  T. D. Jakes

  Insecure, Needs, Fuel

  T.D. Jakes (2007). “Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

  Socrates

  Malice, Greater

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

  Tryon Edwards

  Parent, Anxiety, Misery

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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• The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

  Laura Huxley

  Medicine, Differences, Dosage

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

  Andre Maurois

  Truth Is, Certain, Persons

  Andre Maurois (1925). “Ariel the Life of Shelley”

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• Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Crushed, Downtrodden

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.122, Vintage

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• A dream has power to poison sleep.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sleep

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.192

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• Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

  Edwin Land

  Teamwork, Decision, Collaboration

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• Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

  Nancy Astor

  Husband, Drinking, Beer

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• To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Kindness, Milk, Humans

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 609-10, Wilhelm Tell, IV. 3. 3, 1922.

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