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Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. - Amos Bronson Alcott Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. - James Baldwin Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. - Hosea Ballou Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. - Bible, Matthew (ch. V, v. 8) Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. - Bible, Titus (ch. I, v. 15) Purity of heart is the noblest inheritance, and love the fairest ornament, of woman. - Matthias Claudius If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking. - Frances P. Cobbe The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. - Lord Edward Coke Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God. - Charles Caleb Colton There dwelleth in the sinlessness of youth a sweet rebuke that vice may not endure. - Emma Catherine Embury The smallest speck is seen on snow. - John Gay By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. - Julius Charles Hare Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation. - George Herbert God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall. [It., Quell' onda, che ruina Dalla pendice alpina, Balza, si frange, e mormora Ma limpida si fa.] - Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro), Alcide al Bivio What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turpid as its source? [It., Qual diverra quel fiume, Nel lungo suo cammino, Se al fonte ancor vicino E torbido cosi?] - Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro), Morte d' Abele (I) A spirit pure as hers, Is always pure, even while it errs: As sunshine, broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. - Thomas Moore The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] - Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (IV) Spring has no blossom fairer than thy form; Winter no snow-wreath purer than thy mind; The dew-drop trembling to the morning beam Is like thy smile, pure, transient, heaven-refin'd. - Lydia Jane Pierson Pure and chaste as the falling snow. - Thomas Buchanan Read The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) As pure in thought as angels are, to know her was to love her. - Samuel Rogers The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. - Germain-Francois Pollain de Saint-Foix Who has a breast so pure but some uncleanly apprehensions keep leets and law-days and in session sit with meditations lawful? - William Shakespeare Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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