“ By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: simplicity and purity. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. ”
- Richard Moss- Copy
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“ The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
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“ I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ”
- Mia Hamm- Copy
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“ I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
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“ The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest. ”
- Samuel Smiles- Copy
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“ It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ”
- Ron Wyden- Copy
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“ Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave. ”
- Augustine J. Duganne- Copy
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“ There is something about the sport that is so filmic... there is something about the availability and the purity of these two guys who are absolutely stripped down to a very, very primal contest. ”
- Meg Ryan- Copy
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“ There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. ”
- Elijah Wood- Copy
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“ Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. ”
- Charles Dudley Warner- Copy
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“ The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead. ”
- Katha Upanishad- Copy
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“ My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ We are not nanve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. ”
- Jean Rostand- Copy
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