"The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]"
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"I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity."
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"Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence."
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"To the pure all things are pure!"
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"The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity."
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"As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
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"Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure."
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"The price of purity is purists."
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"Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all."
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"Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature."
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"Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement."
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"Purity is the power to contemplate defilement."
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"A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied."
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"Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided."
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"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."
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"I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't."
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"Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature."
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"Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world."
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"Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration. Whatever you do, do with love and concern. Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty And responsibility's glory."
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"I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me."
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