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10 Quotes for 'Cleanliness' in the Database.
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Cleanliness Quotes
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due
reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Advancement of Learning
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He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 1)
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All will come out in the washing.
[Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)
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God loveth the clean.
Author: Koran
Source: ch. IX
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If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
Author: Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)
Source: Lamb's Suppers (vol. II, last chapter)
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I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God
reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge,
and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at V, iv)
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The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness;
carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness;
guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into
cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
Author: The Talmud
Source: Talmud--Division of Mishna
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are
more deadly in the long run.
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: A Curious Dream, "Facts concerning the Recent Resignation"
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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch
At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;
Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,
Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
Author: Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist")
Source: The Seed Growing Secretly
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Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next
to godliness."
Author: John Wesley
Source: Sermon (XCII, On Dress)
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