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«Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity»
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer | Keywords: chastity, filth, wardens
«Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.»
«And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abominable, filth
«And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: / When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.»
«Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; / And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: / Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.»
«Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.»
«By Guru's Grace, the Lord comes to abide in the mind, and the filth of egotism is dispelled.»
«Filth does not stick to the body of one who has secured a dwelling in his True Home.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib | Keywords: filth, secured
«Forgetting the Primal Lord, O Nanak, people are born and die, over and over again. Mistaking it for musk, they have fallen into the stinking pit of filth.»
«Filth does not stick to those who are true, but filth attaches itself to those who love duality. This filth cannot be washed off, even by bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage.»