Quotes about puritan
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I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Janet Montgomery
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Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.
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Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?! Bill Maher
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One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Martin Filler
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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.
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We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort. John Updike
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Singing the Hundredth Psalm, the grand old Puritan anthem. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. Leland Ryken
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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. Nancy Gibbs
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My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that - well, my father's family came as Puritans to Massachusetts. Phil Jackson
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One of the strongest features of Puritanism is its autobiographical tendency, its passionate self-regard. Tom Paulin
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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life. Alice Morse Earle
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
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People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse. Ben Bernanke
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Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism. Christopher Moore
puritan all-things
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. D. H. Lawrence
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That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were. Don Marquis
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There is a certain reverence for the sociopath as a major cultural type in American society, along with the frontiersman, the puritan and the outlaw. Robert Stone
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process. Rene Auberjonois
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Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan. Richard Hofstadter
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Art is hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass
art puritan irrational
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
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It's actually from the Sermon on the Mount, and then it was picked up by John Winthrop, who was the leader of the Puritan Great Migration in 1630, and gave a sermon in which he says 'we shall be as a city on the hill, and the eyes of all nations will be upon us.' And it inspired me to look back at people who have been relegated to the second rank of historical players, but who I felt were important in terms of the ideals they introduced to our culture.
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The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. Max Weber
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Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. Mignon McLaughlin
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Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. F. Scott Fitzgerald
moral spirit puritan
It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime. Friedrich Nietzsche
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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. Margaret Atwood
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Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. Mary McCarthy
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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. Mason Cooley