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  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
  • There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

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  • Francis Bacon God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • William E. Gladstone He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Bryan Adams I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • John Ruskin The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ben Jonson Truth is the trial of itself
    And needs no other touch,
    And purer than the purest gold,
    Refine it ne'er so much.
    The Touchstone of Truth
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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