John Milton Quotes on Purity

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1. “That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.”

John Milton

Virtue, Innocence, Evil, Moral Development, Purity

2. “So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.”

John Milton

Chastity, Virtue, Divine Protection, Purity, Angelic Guardianship

3. “Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

4. “Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”

John Milton

Evil, Temptation, Purity, Innocence, Moral Responsibility

5. “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

John Milton

Melancholy, Purity, Solemnity, Personification, Imagery

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