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Letter "I" » impure
«He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.»
Author: James Allen
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Statesman)
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Keywords:
beggarly,
commands,
guests,
householder,
impure,
invites,
mansion,
passive,
receptacle,
receptacles,
servants,
streams,
The Mansion,
The Negative,
with authority
«All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Keywords:
and so,
distorting,
distorts,
emotion,
emotions,
gather,
impure,
lift,
one-sided,
pure,
seizes
«People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acquire beautiful horses and elephants, and ornate carriages of many kinds. They think of nothing else, and they forget all their relatives. They ignore their Creator; without the Name, they are impure.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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Keywords:
carriages,
elephants,
enjoyment,
entangle,
entangled,
entangling,
Gold and Silver,
gold dust,
horses,
impure,
ornate,
relatives,
silver
«Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.»
«To the Puritan all things are impure.»
«When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.»
«Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
awe,
awed,
awes,
decorate,
decorated,
decorates,
decorating,
gray,
gross,
grossed,
grosser,
grossest,
gross out,
hairs,
impure,
in awe of,
obscure,
shambles,
skin,
splendor,
splendors,
wrinkled
«O Lord, I acknowledge the True Guru as the Supreme Lord God. I am foolish and ignorant, and my intellect is impure.»
«She may wear good clothes, but the bride is ugly and rude; her mind is false and impure. She does not walk in harmony with the Will of her Husband Lord. Instead, she foolishly gives Him orders.»
«O Nanak, no one else is truly alive; those who merely live shall depart in dishonor; everything they eat is impure. Intoxicated with power and thrilled with wealth, they delight in their pleasures, and dance about shamelessly. O Nanak, they are deluded and defrauded.»