"The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon……" — Walter Savage Landor

More Canker Quotes

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• My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and… — Lord Byron
• The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws… — Horace Mann
• A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. — Charles Baudelaire
• Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less… — Samuel Johnson
• Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak… — Hannah More
• The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. — Pietro Metastasio
• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come… — William Shakespeare
• I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the… — Anne Rice
• You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else. — Tamora Pierce
• Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom! — William Shakespeare
• O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! — William Shakespeare

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