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Letter "P" » Puritans
«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
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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.»
«I cannot say that I am descended from the bastards of Oliver Cromwell, or his courtiers, or from the Puritans who punish their horses for breaking the Sabbath, or from those who persecuted Quakers and burned the witches»
Author: Matthew Lyon
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bastards, burned, courtier, courtiers, Cromwell, descended, Oliver, Oliver Cromwell, persecuted, punish, Puritans, Quaker, Quakers, Sabbath, the Sabbath, The Witches, witches
«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
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Art
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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)
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indignation, pours, puritan, Puritans, righteous
«He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep»
«The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think»
«The great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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artists, ordinarily, Puritans, respectable
«I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic»
«Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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anthem, Anthems, hundredth, hundredths, Puritans
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