Defile Quotes

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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more… — Seneca the Younger
Nonsense, I have not yet begun to defile myself. — Doc Holliday
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the… — John of Kronstadt
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. — Paul the Apostle
Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight,… — Pythagoras
I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches… — Jen Hatmaker
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the… — Ludwig van Beethoven
We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly… — Heinrich Himmler
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as… — John Ruskin
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency,… — Mark Twain
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their… — Henry Miller
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the… — Fulton J. Sheen
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged… — Eoin Colfer
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat… — Oscar Wilde
God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her… — Milan Kundera
Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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