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Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.
Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
I supposed that to marry was to be transported to a heaven not only of happiness but of purity and perfection.
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.
The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
When you decide firmly to lead a clean life, chastity will not be a burden on you: it will be a crown of triumph.
Diamonds have an image of purity and light. They are given as a pledge of love and worn as a symbol of commitment.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
When the peace of God follows the purity of God's wisdom into our hearts and lives, it will affect those around us.
Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man.
There's something about all the people who are on a mission for purity and chastity, which I find very questionable.
How great is the position of the man who is born of God, born of purity, born of faith, born of life, born of power!
Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.
People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.
The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
The NetBeans team tended to be focused on academic purity. Getting them to be a little more blue-collar was a challenge.
I was always a bit concerned about purity of essence. I never wanted a job that might affect the way I wrote or thought.
Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.
The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.
I don't have a boss. I don't answer to anybody. I do everything that I want to do out of the purity of making people happy.
Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
The purity of Jewish upbringing - the restrictions that one carries through life being a 'nice Jewish girl' - what a burden.
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.
If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
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.
I focused on my career. I grew up super Christian, both my parents are ministers, so I did a purity ceremony when I was a teenager.
The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.'