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• Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Snakes

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• The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.

  David L. Felten

  Motivational, World

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• To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.

  Eleanora Duse

  Art, Drama, Air

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• Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

  Washington Irving

  Jealousy, People, Banquets

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• When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

  Kin Hubbard

  Husband, Done, Chance

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• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

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• If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

  Ernestine Rose

  Weed, Spring, Flower

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?

  John Donne

  Art, Kings, War

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.448

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• 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.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.

  John Cowper Powys

  Islands, Opiates, Bars

  John Cowper Powys (1938). “Enjoyment of Literature”, New York, Simon

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• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Birth

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• Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

  Chanakya

  Taken, Medicine, Drunk

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• Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

  John Balguy

  Children, Hands, Giving

  John Balguy (1790). “Twenty-one sermons on the following subjects ... viz”, p.127

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• Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.

  Max Lucado

  Forgiving, Enemy, Dose

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Feb 27, 2012

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• Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
  They are supersensitive.
  They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
  long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Long, Coal

  "Physicist, Purge Thyself". Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969.

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• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Our World, Toxins

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• John Boehner is a member of a country club in Ohio. It turns out that the bartender was plotting to poison Boehner. Now wait a minute. Isn't that the movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco?

  David Letterman

  Country, Ohio, Waiting

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• Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Attitude, Exercise, Men

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• Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Stars

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volume CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. August 27, 1943.

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• By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

  Saint Augustine

  Fall, Men, Redemption

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• All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Mind, Important

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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• Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.

  Honore de Balzac

  Taken, Glory, Dose

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• I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Sin, Worms

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