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Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die.

Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.

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

She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

Slander is poison to the soul.

She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish - only bless.

Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

"State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.

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

TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal".

The honied tongue hath its poison.

The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad.

The maintenance of secrets acts like a psychic poison which alienates the possessor from the community.

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.

There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.

The surest poison is time.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.

There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Tobacco surely was designed To poison, and destroy mankind.

The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends its effects wider, as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught, but because it is committed with cool deliberation.

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.