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Letter "P" » poisonous
«Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.»
Author: Frederick Saunders
| Keywords:
beneficial, injurious, in large quantities, laudanum, medicines, poisonous, quantities
«Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice»
Author: L. Estrange
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
extracting, find fault, juice, poisonous, profitable, Read only, sip, Sipping, venomous
«Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree»
Author: Richard Harris
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
brought about, cocoon, cocoons, envelop, enveloped, enveloping, envelops, fungi, fungus, poisonous
«The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
doctrine, equality, poison, poisonous, preached, There exists
«That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Racism
| Keywords:
excesses, hopeful, humane, incontestable, poisonous
«No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.»
«This unstable mind cannot be held steady. Attached to duality, it wanders in the ten directions. It is a poisonous worm, drenched with poison, and in poison it rots away.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, duality, poisonous, rots, The Ten, wanders
«Snakes hiss; pigs grunt; and bills moo! They are asserting their ego, intent on keeping others away. Of the traits of ego, pride is the most poisonous. But, the pride of the scholar and the vanity of Pundits are so thick, that it is impossible for them to get rid of these.»
«The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
common man, included, poems, poisonous, Pride and, Shakespeare
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