I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
quote by John Burns
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Cleanliness and Happiness
Cleanliness! Cleanliness! Cleanliness!
Cleanliness ever gives you happiness! happiness! happiness!
For cleanliness is next to Godliness! Godliness! Godliness!
Keep your surroundings very clean,
Dust and tidy, wash and preen,
Spic and span-it must seem,
In an environment that does gleam.
Physical cleanliness is a must,
Brush your teeth and attend to bathing;
Clean your hair and wear clothes clean;
Be fresh and to be clean, be keen.
Flush all evil thoughts from your mind
And gush it with love and ever be kind;
Honesty and sincerity; goodness and cheerfulness
Implanted, will make one bounce with happiness.
poem by Chandra Thiagarajan
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Zero
cover of SMASHING PUMPKINS
My reflection, dirty mirror
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover, I'm your zero
I'm in the face of your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we're really gonna need'em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
Cause she's the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
Intoxicated with the madness, I'm in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fasion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself, for what you can't ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
She's the one for me
She's my one and only
song performed by by Evanescence
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Stay Germ Free
Bird Flu and Swine Flu can travel our way.
So may cleanliness be the mode of the day...
In the Florence Nightingale way.
'Florence Nightingale'
nurse in the Crimean War
helped British soldiers
by cleaning the hospitals
halving the dreadful death toll.
Although retired, she gave her all
to improve the conditions
in the Nursing Profession,
leaving behind a valuable lesson.
Bird Flu and Swine Flu can travel our way
So may cleanliness be the mode of the day
in the Florence Nightingale way.
poem by Joyce Hemsley
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A Blunder
IF God created us in his image,
Then why do we reject the holiness
He instilled in us? Why would we damage
Others in the pursuit of cleanliness?
IF we created God to serve our needs,
Then why don't we heed the virtues we've made?
Why must our personal greed supersede
The divinities that we masquerade?
What is the worth of Christ-like compassion
Or Bodhisattva-like enlightenment
IF they've never truly been in fashion—
IF we've always favored disheartenment?
Why does our species refuse to release
And give in to the harbingers of peace?
poem by Tim Stensloff
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
quote by P.J. O'Rourke
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Car Boot
They sleep in twos and eights
With hopes and expectations
Pornographic dreams of cleanliness
Car boot
Tip tap little star
I hope that you are not thirsty
My vision has evaporated
Car boot
The giants house is burning
Smoke invades the eyes
Goodnight my dear cretin
Car boot
poem by James Clive
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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.
quote by Cavett Robert
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
quote by Utada Hikaru
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But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
quote by Bruce Johnston
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
quote by Frances Farmer
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Execution before judgment
The fly wringing its hands on the plate -
is it anticipation, or cleanliness, or shame?
Too late..
poem by Michael Shepherd
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
quote by Ric Ocasek
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It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
quote by Virginia Woolf
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Behavior
BEHAVIOR--fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself,
Nature and the Soul expressed--America and freedom expressed--In it
the finest art,
In it pride, cleanliness, sympathy, to have their chance,
In it physique, intellect, faith--in it just as much as to manage an
army or a city, or to write a book--perhaps more,
The youth, the laboring person, the poor person, rivalling all the
rest--perhaps outdoing the rest,
The effects of the universe no greater than its;
For there is nothing in the whole universe that can be more effective
than a man's or woman's daily behavior can be,
In any position, in any one of These States.
poem by Walt Whitman
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