Pure Quotes

2770 Pure quotes by 1744 unique authors

Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly.… — Elisabeth Elliot
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low… — Price Pritchett
It is my observation that all human hearts are the same and that their ultimate desire is also the same. This soul wants happiness, perfect… — Rajneesh
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh… — Arthur Bremer
Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. — Thomas Haynes Bayly
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure… — Hans Hofmann
. . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We… — Swami Vivekananda
No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most… — Ross Douthat
The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to… — Kent Nerburn
God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. — Reuben Archer Torrey
In the pure, strong hours of the morning, when the soul of the day is at its best, lean upon the window sill of God… — E. Stanley Jones
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste. — Harold Brodkey
We have been told . . . that this life is a necessary part in the course of progression designed by our Father. We have… — James E. Talmage
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold… — Neville Cardus
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure… — William Wordsworth
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure. — Martial
We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your… — Henry David Thoreau
We gathered the wild-flowers. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight; As thro' the field we rov'd. Yes, life there seem'd one pure delight. — George Linley
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right,… — Boyd K. Packer
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts...… — Socrates
Beware of greed and remain pure and just. Restrain yourself from every vice. He who cannot restrain himself, how will he be able to teach… — Polycarp

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