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:
“Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)
“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. women’s magazine contributor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 331-4 (July 1828)