Famous quotes containing the words separating and/or puritans:
“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.”
—Wendell Phillips (1811–1884)