Quotes and Sayings About Purity
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.
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I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.
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God was conceived of a most pure Virgin ... it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
-- Anselm of CanterburySource : "Mary for Earth and Heaven" by William McLaughlin, p. 115-116, 2002.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
-- Barry MannSource : "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.
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There is only a single step between impurity and purity.
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It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
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The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
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The price of purity is purists.
-- Calvin TrillinSource : Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”
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Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
-- Catherine DohertySource : "Poustinia" by Catherine Doherty, (Ch. 5), 1975.
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[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.
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Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
-- Charles Robert MaturinSource : Charles Robert Maturin (1819). “Fredolfo: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.39
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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
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Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.
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Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
-- Derek JarmanSource : Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
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Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
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Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
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Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.
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Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence.
-- Fatima bint MuhammadSource : "A'yan al-Shi'a". Book by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin (Volume 1, p. 316), 1421.
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Allah made the faith for you as a purity from polytheism (and unbelief).
-- Fatima bint MuhammadSource : "Ayan al-Shī'ah" by al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin, vol.1, p. 316,
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We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.
-- Federico Fellini -
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
-- Flora ThompsonSource : Flora Thompson (1986). “The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside”, David & Charles
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Purity or impurity depends on oneself, no one can purify another.
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The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.
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In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
-- George Washington -
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
-- Georges Bernanos