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«He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently, the second was excused through public piety.»
Author: Andrew Sinclair | Keywords: Episcopalian, excused, persistently, piety, pricked, puritan, Puritans
«For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application / why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.»
Author: Howard Nemerov | Keywords: conscientious, puritan, Puritans, retailing, The Middle Class
«The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose»
Author: Kenneth Hare | Keywords: cast away, pluck, puritan, Puritans, The Rose, thorn
«Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer | About: Art | Keywords: all the same, exuberantly, irrational, pointless, puritan, Puritans, wonderfully
«A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: indignation, pours, puritan, Puritans, righteous
«The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay (Historian) | Keywords: baiting, puritan, Puritans, spectators, The Bear
«To the Puritan all things are impure.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence (Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: impure, puritan, Puritans
«I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | Keywords: immoral, puritan, Puritans, step in
«Our honest Puritan festival is spreading, not as formerly, as a kind of opposition Christmas, but as a welcome prelude and adjunct, a brief interval of good cheer and social rejoicing, heralding the longer season of feasting and rest from labor in th»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer) | Keywords: adjunct, adjuncts, feasting, formerly, herald, heralding, heralds, prelude, preludes, puritan, rejoicing, The Herald
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