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“Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.”

“Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.”

Pain Emotional All Time Our Time Emotional Pain Contagion

Author:Marc Ian Barasch

“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.”

May Self Care Poverty Atheism Dangerous Needed Saint Positive Atheism Associates Joints Advancement Renunciation Contagion Abnegation

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.”

Ifs Difficult Positive Laughter Contagion

Author:Robert Holden

“If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another”

Ifs Should Firsts Believe Doe Reason Done Born Sin Cases Grace Worst Approach Flesh Granted Sinner Adam Forgiven Infant Baptism Contagion Remission

Author:Cyprian

“Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread”

Way Problem Study Spread Urgent Contagion Unexplored Typhus

Author:Jules Henry

“Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.”

Phenomenon Globalization Contagion

Author:Lawrence Summers

“If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.”

Ifs Love Kind Children Use Happiness Parent Perfect Goodness Direct Delight Mortals Demise Contagion Parents Love

Book:The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn

“As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.”

Men May Long Time Hope Left Women Scene Spread Compassionate Bad Times Desolate Contagion Upright Man

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.”

Ifs Whole Christian Church Novel Catholic Crafts Incapable Novelty Antiquity Small Parts Contagion

Author:Vincent of Lerins

“If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.”

Ifs Evil Goodness Spread Contagious Contagion

Author:Pope Francis

“As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.”

Trust Sickness Contagion

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.”

Cases Groups Activity Function Mood Settling Settling Down Sleepy Entirety Primates Contagion Grumpy Hopping

Author:Frans de Waal

“To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.”

Soul Body Evil Moral Connections Dissolution Contagion Moral Evil

Book:Christian Theology

Source: Christian Theology