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Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them. -- Henri Matisse
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. -- Johannes Brahms
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. -- Wilfred Owen
For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style. -- Renee Fleming
Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists. -- Jerry Saltz
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. -- Martin Chemnitz
I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. -- Marcel Duchamp
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. -- Nikolai Gogol
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to adore a nonhuman creature is somehow a purer form of love. -- David Rakoff
I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to American music. It hits you in a way that's a lot purer because you are not in that culture that you're watching. -- Ben Mendelsohn
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. -- Marianne Williamson
There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity. -- Martin Chemnitz
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form. -- Lauryn Hill
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. -- Alexei Navalny
The stream is always purer at its source. -- Blaise Pascal
A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The day is not purer than the depths of my heart. -- Jean Racine
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws. -- Charles Kingsley
Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. -- Eugene Delacroix
Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer. -- Soman Chainani
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. -- Elie Wiesel
No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. -- Steven Erikson
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. -- Brenda Ueland
While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest. -- William Wordsworth
Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God. -- Swami Vivekananda
The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] -- Blaise Pascal
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere. -- Orison Swett Marden
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. -- Nick Offerman
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie. -- Joseph Glanvill
The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. -- Elie Wiesel
Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling -- Gordon MacQuarrie
The purer the application of socialism, the worse the results, the purer the application of capitalism, the better the results. -- James Cook
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law." -- Wilfred Owen
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law -- Wilfred Owen
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. -- Swami Muktananda
"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation. -- Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. -- Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. -- Jean Paul
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Love is life's snow. It falls deepest and softest into the gashes left by the fight - whiter and purer than snow itself. -- Fridtjof Nansen
A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. -- Euripides
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life. -- Jonathan Lethem
We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer. -- Lauryn Hill
[C. Montgomery] Burns is much purer evil than Nixon was. I think it's the purity of his evil that attracts me as a comic character. -- Harry Shearer
I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping. -- Elisabeth of Wied
Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love. -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise -- John Greenleaf Whittier
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. -- Walter Savage Landor
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder
I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. -- Pablo Neruda
Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire. -- Henry David Thoreau
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view. -- J. G. Holland
Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra. -- Jude Morgan
Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day. -- Stephen Charnock
I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. -- Charlotte Bronte
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself. -- Aleister Crowley
Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools. -- Gabriela Mistral
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God. -- Athenaeus
The light that a man receives by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which comes from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. -- Francis Bacon
I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited. -- Hinton Rowan Helper
Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad. -- Frederick William Robertson

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