#poison

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#handled #ill #moment #pain #patiently

I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#cannot #i #i do #poison #put

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. ↗

— Chanakya

#poisonous #pretend #should #snake #venomous

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗

— Chanakya

#fly #man #mouth #poison #saturated

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#health #humor #poison #sadness #soul

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. ↗

— John Locke

#fountain #parents #poisoned #streams #themselves

Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#laughing #poison #treasure #funny

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#chance #chemical #dangerous #everything #find

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#allow #america #blast #fair #flowers

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. ↗

— John Owen

#destruction #either #exercise #food #his