“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio
Edwin Hubbell Chapin (1814–1880) American priest
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, P. 251.
“Hunger for vengeance poisoned the soul.”
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 4 (p. 153)
“Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 407)
“I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) English poet
The Revenge, Act V, sc. ii.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 312
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician (CDU)
As quoted by General Sir Charles Fergusson in a memorandum (10 July 1945), recalling conversations with Adenauer in 1918-1919, at the end of World War I. As published in Adenauer : The Father of the New Germany (2000) by Charles Williams, p. 293 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=7mhpKYpugJsC&pg=PA293