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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
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The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
Leland Ryken
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
D. H. Lawrence
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Artemas Ward
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It's not a performance to impress the Puritans
Martin Tyler
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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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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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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
Gunter Grass
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Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
Heywood Broun
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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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Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.
Janet Montgomery
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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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We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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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 Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
Leland Ryken
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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
Mason Cooley
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To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism
John Lane
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
Oscar Wilde
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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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Why are there so many puritans in this country, and why can't the rest of us make them go away?!
Bill Maher