#purity

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ↗

— Juvenal

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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

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The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. ↗

— John Strachan

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The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

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‎If heart filled with purity, then mind found the beauty. ↗

— Toba Beta

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The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

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