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«There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.»
Author: Arthur Helps
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Beauty,
Cosmetics
| Keywords:
calmness, cosmetic, cosmetics, countenance, good temper, gracious, modesty, purity, severe, signatures, temperance, the Graces, without modesty
«The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.»
Author: Richard Moss
| About:
Attention,
Gifts
| Keywords:
another, attention, attentions, gift, give, greatest, purity, The Greatest, with attention
«These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
arm, asthmatic, bagpipe, bagpipes, carrying, indignant, inspired, inventor, pig, purity, the inventor, The Sound, unfortunately
«There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.»
«Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government»
«Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.»
«Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness, and purity to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Reading,
Thinking
| Keywords:
amazed, atrocities, atrocity, author, bandage, bandaged, bandages, cowled, Holy Bible, holy book, phantom, purity, push, reverence, superstition, The Author, The Holy Bible, The Phantom, The Phantom of, throne
«The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
confute, confuted, confutes, confuting, consideration, purity, without consideration
«The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice»
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