Purity
Purity is the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance. The term also applies to the absence of vice in human character.
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Famous quotes containing the word purity:
“This letter will be delivered to you by my child,the child of my adoption,my affection! Unblest with one natural friend, she merits a thousand. I send her to you innocent as an angel, and artless as purity itself; and I send you with her the heart of your friend, the only hope he has on earth, the subject of his tenderest thoughts, and the object of his latest cares.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
—Jean Racine (16391699)
“Do not be discouraged, if in a thousand instances you find your kindness rejected and wronged, your good evil-spoken of, and the hand you extend for the relief of others, cast insultingly away; the benevolence which cannot outlive these trials of its purity and strength, is not like the self-sacrifice of him, who went about doing good.”
—C., U.S. womens magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 331-4 (July 1828)