"To get power over is to defile. To…" — Simone Weil

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• To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest… — 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… — John of Kronstadt
• If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the temple of God is holy, which… — Paul the Apostle
• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down… — Pythagoras
• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy,… — Jen Hatmaker
• What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly… — Ludwig van Beethoven
• We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way.… — 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… — John Ruskin

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