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Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
Edmund Burke— No. 1, p. 172 in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A New Edition, v. VIII. London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1815.
Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.
— 1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.
We have sent among you, of yourselves, a Messenger, to recite Our signs to you and to purify you, and to teach youthe Book and theWisdom, and toteachyouthat you knew not. So remember Me, and I will remember you; and be thankful to Me; and be you not ungrateful towards Me.
The Koran— Sura 2, l.151-2.
The Sheikh has departed, may God have mercy on him, to his God as a martyr and we must continue on his path of jihad to expell the invaders from the land of Muslims and to purify it from injustice. Today, and thanks be to God, America is not facing an individual or a group, but a rebelling nation, which has awoken from its sleep in a jihadist renaissance.
— Al-Qaeda posts fresh warning from al-Zawahiri to US. BBC News (June 8, 2011). Retrieved on June 20, 2011.
Let us give to our republic a fourth power with authority over the youth, the hearts of men, public spirit, habits, and republican morality. Let us establish this Areopagus to watch over the education of the children, to supervise national education, to purify whatever may be corrupt in the republic, to denounce ingratitude, coldness in the country's service, egotism, sloth, idleness, and to pass judgment upon the first signs of corruption and pernicious example.
simón bolívar— As quoted in Rise of the Spanish-American Republics as Told in the Lives of their Liberators (1918) by William Spence Robertson, p. 239
"I think your piety one of your greatest charms; but then, like all other good things, it may be carried too far. To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul, but not enough to refine away her heart, and raise her above all human sympathies"
anne brontë— Arthur to Helen (Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony)
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
— Ch. 183 (Exertion)
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
eliza farnham— Woman and Her Era (1864), pt. 2, ch. 1
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.
françois fénelon— P. 317. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Exterminate the 50 million Vietnamese... and purify the masses of the [Cambodian] people.
pol pot— Phnom Penh radio broadcast (May 10, 1978) ([[1]]).
That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.
john campbell shairp— P. 61. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.
felix adler— Section 2 : Religion
Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.
Nikos Kazantzakis— Odysseus to Hades, Book XI, line 145
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
josé martí— "Adúltera" [Adulterous Thoughts] (1883)
Sexuality and eroticism are the intricate intersection of nature and culture. Feminists grossly oversimplify the problem of sex when they reduce it a matter of social convention: readjust society, eliminate sexual inequality, purify sex roles, and happiness and harmony will reign. Here feminism, like all liberal movements of the past two hundred years, is heir to Rousseau .
camille paglia— p. 1 (Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990))
Education is the chief remedy for all those great evils which afflict the country. Education will not only cultivate and improve the intellect of the nation, but will also purify its character.
keshub chunder sen— Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
alexis de tocqueville— Book One, Chapter V
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
— Ch. 183 (Exertion)
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.
hannah more— p. 568. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas.
— Gautama Buddha, in the Dhammapada, Verse 183
By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.
— Horace Bushnell, p. 586. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.
joseph alleine— Joseph Alleine, The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners (1804), Chapter 3, p. 44
Our Lord, and raise up in them a Messenger from among them who shall recite to them Thy messages and teach them the Book and the Wisdom, and purify them Surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.
— 129 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
Those who take a small price for the covenant of Allah and their own oaths -- they have no portion in the Hereafter, and Allah will not speak to them, nor will He look upon them on the day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them, and for them is a painful chastisement.
— 76 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
And when Allah said: O Isa, [Jesus] I am going to terminate the period of your stay (on earth) and cause you to ascend unto Me and purify you of those who disbelieve and make those who follow you above those who disbelieve to the day of resurrection; then to Me shall be your return, so l will decide between you concerning that in which you differed.
— Original: ?
— The Qur'an (?), Sura 3:55 (The Family of Amran, ?).
We have now, it Seems, a National Bible Society, to propagate the King James's Bible through all Nations. Would it not be better to apply the pious SubScriptions, to purify Christendom from the Corruptions of Christianity; than to propagate those corruptions in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America!
— John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson (November 4, 1816). Published in The Quotable John Adams (Globe Pequot, 2008), p. 185ff.
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
— Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics As A Guide To Morals, p. 178
To my thinking, a woman's religion ought not to lessen her devotion to her earthly lord. She should have enough to purify and etherealise her soul , but not enough to refine away her heart , and raise her above all human sympathies.
— Anne Brontë, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Anne Bronte - With ..., p.182
