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• Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

  Vanna Bonta

  Heart, Color, Blooming

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• Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, World

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• Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

  George Herbert

  Clothes, Mind, Body

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• The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.

  Kylie Bisutti

  Beautiful, Humility, Eye

  Kylie Bisutti (2013). “I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model”, p.244, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Buddhism, Giving

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• The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Charity, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.47, Penguin

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

  Salman Rushdie

  History, Havoc, Explanation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The scriptures recommend love and service to the enlightened to develop purity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Scripture, Enlightened

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• Peace of heart is the natural outcome of purity of heart.

  Spiros Zodhiates

  Heart, Outcomes, Natural

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• The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Giving Up, Light

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• Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Light, Air, Simplicity

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• Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.

  Mary Rodgers

  Heart, Ambition, People

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• And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Free Spirit, Want, Energy

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• Regard as free not those whose status makes them outwardly free, but those who are free in their character and conduct. For we should not call men truly free when they are wicked and dissolute, since they are slaves to worldly passions. Freedom and happiness of soul consist in genuine purity and detachment from transitory things.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Passion, Character

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• Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that love whose ingredients the apostle described (cf. I Cor. 13) and which is to be found solely in purity of heart. Not to be jealous, not to be puffed up, not to act heedlessly, not to seek what does not belong to one, not to rejoice over some injustice, not to plan evil - what is this and its like if not the continuous offering to God of the heart that is perfect and truly pure, a heart kept free of all disturbance?

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jealous, Heart

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• I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Winning, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “God's Grace to You”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.

  Gucci Westman

  Eye, Skins, Common

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• Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

  Archimedes

  Discovery, Gold, Tests

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• The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

  Kato

  Mother, Father, Princess

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• My name, Paloma, means 'dove' in Spanish. It stands as a symbol of peace and purity.

  Paloma Picasso

  Mean, Names, Dove

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• How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Country, Sex, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3377, Delphi Classics

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• Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Winning, Joy, Discrete

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

  Jean Racine

  Eye, Light, Giving

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