PURITANS

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1. The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes
   To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.—Anonymous
   

2. It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."—MATTHEW HENRY, Commentaries
   

3. Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.—LOWELL, New England Two Centuries Ago
   

4. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.—MACAULAY, History of England
   

5. What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.—WENDELL PHILLIPS
   

6. A Puritan is a fanatical idealist to whom all stimulations of the sense of beauty are abhorred; a philistine is a prosaic person who has no ideals.—BERNARD SHAW, Dramatic Opinions & Essays