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contagion

«He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.»
«[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.»
«As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust»
Author: Marianne Moore (Poet) | Keywords: contagion
«He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death»
«Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.»
«And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.»
«A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.»
«'Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world»