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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.
Blaise Pascal
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]
Charles Dudley Warner
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Guillaume Apollinaire
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Henry David Thoreau
The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Jean Rostand
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.
Metastasio (pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro)
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)
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?]
Oscar Wilde
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.
Richard Moss
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
Siddh?rtha Gautama Buddha
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
William Shakespeare
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.
 
 
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