Pure State

Famous quotes containing the words pure and/or state:

“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)