"Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world." — Mother Teresa

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• There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many… — Mother Teresa
• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for,… — Mother Teresa
• Her skin was white as leprosy. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• [Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering… — Irenaeus of Lyons
• It has always been my concern to touch people with leprosy, trying to show in a simple action that they… — Princess Diana
• Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. — Unknown Author
• Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40… — Lou Dobbs
• I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked… — Baba Amte
• Joy is more infectious than leprosy — Baba Amte
• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By… — L. Ron Hubbard
• Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water… — Mother Teresa

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