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Tag Name "Chastity" (102)

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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.
J. William Schickel
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Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it the old Christian rule is, Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence.
C. S. Lewis
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
Edward Abbey
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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
Aldous Huxley
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
Norm MacDonald
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Chastity is curable, if detected early.
Woody Allen
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Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must bring. But at the same time chastity is the sure way to happiness.
Pope John Paul II
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
Samuel Richardson
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Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.
Mason Cooley
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Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
Charmian Clift
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples in others, sex laws.
Karl Kraus
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Chastity works better if you don't keep testing it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Chastity, once lost, cannot be recalled it goes only once.
Ovid
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy
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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
Virginia Woolf
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor
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Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?
Christopher Ryan
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
John Milton
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Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
David A. Bednar
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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
John Milton
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