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Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
President
Henry Brooks Adams

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Tyranny
Aeschylus

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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress
Walter Bagehot

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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Pain
Henry Ward Beecher

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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Slander
St. Bernard

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Expect poison from standing water.
Idleness
William Blake

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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Fame
William Blake

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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Wives
Winston Churchill

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Gossip
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
Villains
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The surest poison is time.
Time and Time Management
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Murder
Euripides

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Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
Courtesy
Edwin H. Land

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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Parents and Parenting
John Locke

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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Taste
Lucretius

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Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
Anger
Alfred A. Montapert

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A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Books - Reading
William Murray

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One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
Hatred
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Science and Scientists
Adam Smith

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I hate the place like poison with a sincere hatred.
Hollywood
Source Unknown

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late
Love
Source Unknown

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun