Chaste Quote by Laurence Sterne

“The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.” quote by Laurence Sterne — Download Open image

“The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.”

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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

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The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

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Manye chapeleyns arn chaste, ac charite is aweye; Are none hardere than hii whan hii ben avaunced: Unkynde to hire kyn and to alle Cristene, Chewen hire charite and chiden after moore - Swich chastite withouten charite worth cheyned in helle.

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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful…

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“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they…

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“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.”

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“The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the…

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The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly’s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does…

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