Purer Quotes
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A livelier emerald twinkles in the grass, A purer sapphire melts into the sea.
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I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour.
william ellery channing— New England, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
But when eve's silent footfall steals Along the eastern sky, And one by one to earth reveals Those purer fires on high.
john keble— John Keble, The Christian Year, Fourth Sunday After Trinity.
Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu. Bestow a purer sense on the language of the horde.
Ste phane Mallarme— 1893 Poe sies, Hommages et Tombeaux,'Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe' (translated by Henry Weinfield,1994).
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise
john greenleaf whittier— 1872 'The Brewing of Soma'.
The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.
báb— VII, 19 (The Persian Bayán)
People say that if we work for the Single European Act, women will get their rights, the water will be purer, and training will be better. That is rubbish. It is part of the attempt to consolidate the EEC.
tony benn— Speech to the House of Commons (23 February 1989) (Hansard, c. 1192)
It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.
alexander maclaren— P. 294. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not “a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.”
maurice merleau-ponty— p. 8 (In Praise of Philosophy (1963))
There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
thomas watson— "Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692)
She stood amid the morning due,And sang her earliest measure sweet,Sang as the lark sings,speeding fair,to touch and taste the purer air
sarah chauncey woolsey— Coolidge tribute to fellow poet Jean Ingelow from Preface to Poems by Jean Ingelow, Volume II, Roberts Bros 1896 kindle ebook ASIN B0082C1UAI .
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.
frederick william robertson— p. 545. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there! Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim, These brambles pale with mist engarlanded, That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him; To a boon southern country he is fled, And now in happier air, Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine (And purer or more subtle soul than thee, I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see) Within a folding of the Apennine.
Matthew Arnold— St. 18. (Thyrsis (1866))
There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.
Robert Browning— Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843), Act i, scene iii.
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.
aleister crowley— Appendix VI : A few principal rituals – Liber Reguli
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.
Charles Kingsley— On the Death of a certain Journal, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ring in the nobler modes of life / with sweeter manners, purer laws", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, Stanza 4.
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
smith, joseph, jr.— Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8 (May 17, 1843)
Sometimes a strange light shines, purer than the moon , casting no shadow , that is the halo upon the bones of the pioneers who died for truth .
r. s. thomas— "Groping", p. 12
In political matters it is very hard for a man in office to be purer than his neighbours, and, when he is so, he becomes troublesome.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 44 (Phineas Redux (1874))
There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
— Thomas Watson, "Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692).
And this is the mission of the church not civilization, but salvation not better laws, purer legislation, social elevation, human equality, and liberty, but FIRST, the " kingdom of God and His righteousness;" regenerated hearts, and all other things will follow.
— Abbott Eliot Kittredge, p. 149. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.
— Doctrine and Covenants 131:7-8 (May 17, 1843)
Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer, more lofty, more shaggy they seemed. The clouds o'er their summits they calmly did rest, And hung on the ether's invisible breast; Than the vapours of earth they seemed purer, more bright, Oh! could they be clouds? 'Twas the necklace of night.
john ruskin— John Ruskin, The Iteriad, Sunset at Low-Wood.
There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.
— "Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity (1692)
Father! forgive the heart that clings Thus trembling to the things of time, And bid my soul, on angel's wings Ascend into a purer clime.
— Jane Roscoe, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 15.
