Purity

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:

    Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

    I know the purity of pure despair,
    My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    Who knows what sort of life would result if we attained to purity? If I knew so wise a man as could teach me purity I would go to seek him forthwith.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)