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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, an

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. – Henry David Thoreau

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We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. – Thomas Kempis

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. – Oscar Wilde

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