"Pureness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... coming now to what looked like a ridge of rocks ahead of us; and I saw here a wonderful thing, a great light of incredible pureness and whiteness, which struck upwards from the farther side. This began to light up our own pale faces, and to throw our backs into a dark shadow, even though the radiance of the heavenly day was all about us. And at last ...
— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson
... are walking now in a strange, dim land: Tell me, has pride gone with you there? Does a frail white form before you stand, And tremble to earth, beneath your stare? No, no!—she is strong in her pureness now, And Love to Power no more defers. I fear the roses will never grow On your lonely grave as they ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various
... sighs to see what innocence he hath out-lived. The elder he grows, he is a stair lower from God; and, like his first father, much worse in his breeches.[5] He is the Christian's example, and the old man's relapse; the one imitates his pureness, and the other falls into his simplicity. Could he put off his body with his little coat, he had got eternity without a burden, and exchanged ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various |
