"Modesty and chastity are twins" — Anna Brownell Jameson
"Modesty and chastity are twins"
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Anna Brownell Jameson
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20 Quotes by Anna Brownell Jameson
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As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense…
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the…
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We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not…
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and…
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Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
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If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.
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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
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... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing…
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The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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More Chastity Quotes
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one of 157 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and…
— Samuel Butler
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so…
— George Chapman
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Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
— Anton Chekhov
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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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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
— Erica Jong
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
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If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure…
— William Shakespeare
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
— Barbara Cartland
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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.
— Eric Hoffer
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Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
— John Donne
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