Francis Bacon Quotes

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

To the pure all things are pure!

I am too pure for you or anyone.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

We should be living a life of purity.

Blessed is the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted from the world. Yet more blessed and more dear the memory of those who have kept themselves unspotted in the world.

The white flower of a blameless life.

I'm as clean as the days are long.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

What power is higher than the power of purity?