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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. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

It is an absolute poison and a scourge on society and it is time to talk about it, (Quote by - Ralph Klein)

Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head From a flint so unhappily thrown; I think very different from thousands; indeed 'Twas a lucky escape for the stone. (Quote by - Peter Pindar)

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. (Quote by - Malachy McCourt)

Anxiety is the poison of human life, the parent of many sins and of more miseries.... Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? (Quote by - Paxton Blair)

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations, for sleep is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. ... Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head, which hath lain fallow all night, with some serious work. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness. (Quote by - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy. (Quote by - Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus)

The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

One man's meat is another's poison. (Quote by - English proverb)

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life. (Quote by - Bernie S. Siegel)

I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. (Quote by - Adelaide Proctor)

One should seek for the salutary in the unpleasant: if it is there, it is after all nectar. One should seek for the deceitful in the pleasant: if it is there it is after all poison. (Quote by - Panchatantra)

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. (Quote by - Adam Smith)

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

While Fell was reposing himself in the hay, A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay; But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light, And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite. (Quote by - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing)

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. (Quote by - John Galbraith)

What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. (Quote by - Oliver C. Wilson)

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

The shop-keepers collect poison, sitting in their shops, carrying on their business. Their love is false, their displays are false, and they are engrossed in falsehood. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)

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