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Tag Name "Plague" (218)

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But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend!
George Canning
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
Ann Patchett
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There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.
Stephenie Meyer
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But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlots curse Blasts the new-born Infants tear And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
William Blake
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Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.
Gordon Quinn
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The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
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And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.
Albert Camus
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We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.
Marian Wright Edelman
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He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
Salman Rushdie
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And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.
T.A. Barron
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What a plague love is!
Cornelia Funke
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I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church.
Pope Francis
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But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
Albert Camus
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Voltaire
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Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
William Shakespeare
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He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbitt'ring all his state.
Horace
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Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
Tom Robbins
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The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Maya Angelou
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Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny their children protection so that they could safeguard their own self- image. Or maybe we'll just seem like a bunch of lunatics.
Anna Quindlen
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Sure there are some companies at the margins of our society that probably do that and I think we all have the responsibility as consumers and as investors to avoid them like the plague. If we do, they won't last very long. Doing what's right is the only possible formula for long-term - I emphasize long term - business success.
John C. Bogle
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The plague of government is senile delinquency.
Mignon McLaughlin
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where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death
Ted Hughes
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Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
Giovanni Trapattoni
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
Albert Camus
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