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Leprosy Quotes

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

The Illustrated Weekly of India (May 20, 1984), p. 15; later quoted in Hans Staffner "Baba Amte: A Vision of New India", 2000.

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

"Baba Amte: A Vision of New India". Book by Hans Staffner (p. 22), 2000.

When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.57

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.104, Harvard University Press

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 190 (1798)