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Charles Baudelaire A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
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Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Charley Reese If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
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E. Stanley Jones A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
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Gordon Allport There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked,I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like.
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Herman Hesse If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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James Baldwin I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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James Thurber All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
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Karl Kraus Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
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