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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity,

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PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

3.8 · 64 votes

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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

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PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

4.0 · 28 votes · 122 reads

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

3.8 · 21 votes

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.

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NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

4.4 · 40 votes

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are

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AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

5.0 · 64 votes

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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits whic

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

4.5 · 50 votes

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

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François de La Rochefoucauld

WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

3.4 · 45 votes · 131 reads

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

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AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

4.6 · 21 votes

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These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

4.4 · 60 votes

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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.3 · 21 votes · 90 reads
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