"Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them."
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"Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses."
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"I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill."
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"A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp."
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"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
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"Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues"
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"The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown."
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"Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words"
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"Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller."
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"Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again."
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"Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line."
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"There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles."
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"The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system."
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"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."
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"Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe."
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"Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood."
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"Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison."
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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]."
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"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."
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"Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear"
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