"Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open."
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"The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man."
"I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections."
"Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?"
"Purity of life is the highest and truest art."
"True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors."
"Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious."
"People like beauty and purity. They pretend that's what it's all about."
"Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude."
"Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth."
"Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love."
"Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style."
"Pure by impure is not seen."
"Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual."
"Out of purity and silence comes the word of power."
"External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity."
"The power of purity-it is a definite power."
"Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings."
"Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action."
"Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure."