Quotes with pestilence

  • In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William Blake Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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