Pure Scavenger

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or scavenger:

“Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timed and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong’s pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“Little scavenger away,
touch not the door,
beat not the portal down.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)