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• We tap our toes to chaste love songs about the silvery moon without recognizing them as hymns to copulation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Song, Moon, Hymns

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Would Be, Temperance, Chastity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.274, Penguin

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  Do you know that women who are chaste remain much fresher than those who are not?

  Michelangelo

  Knows, Do You Know

  Kirsten Bradbury, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2001). “Essential Michelangelo”

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• Let your eye be chaste, your hand faithful, your tongue truthful and your heart enlightened.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• A visit to New Hampshire supplies the most resources to a traveler, and confers the most benefit on the mind and taste, when it lifts him above mere appetite for wildness, ruggedness, and the feeling of mass and precipitous elevation, into a perception and love of the refined grandeur, the chaste sublimity, the airy majesty overlaid with tender and polished bloom, in which the landscape splendor of a noble mountain lies.

  Thomas Starr King

  Lying, Feelings, Mind

  Thomas Starr King (1876). “The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry”, p.6

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• It was rumored, in 1946, that the hangman in Nuremberg adjusted the nooses of some of the condemned to magnify the pain of suffocation. Such sadism was not called for then and is not called for now. But if fornication is wrong, there is no denying that it can bring pleasure. The death of Saddam Hussein at rope's end brings a pleasure that is undeniable, and absolutely chaste in its provenance.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Pain, Sadism, Rope

  "Spare Thoughts on Saddam" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. December 29, 2006.

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• Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Men, Needs, Honest Woman

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• He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

  Pope Clement I

  Flesh, Proud, Should

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• So cute how you called out for Damen after conjuring that chaste little love scene in your head.

  Alyson Noel

  Cute, Littles, Scene

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• My earnest prayer is that you will have the courage required to refrain from judging others, the courage to be chaste and virtuous, and the courage to stand firm for truth and righteousness. As you do so, you will be ‘an example of the believers’ (1 Timothy 4:12), and your life will be filled with love and peace and joy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Judging, Joy

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• A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, School, May

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• One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.

  John Updike

  Country, Sweden, Canada

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• She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.

  Ovid

  Doe, May, Danger

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• I was a poet too; but modern taste
  Is so refined and delicate and chaste,
  That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,
  Without a creamy smoothness has no charms.
  Thus, all success depending on an ear,
  And thinking I might purchase it too dear,
  If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound,
  And truth cut short to make a period round,
  I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse
  Than caper in the morris-dance of verse.

  William Cowper

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  William Cowper (1830). “Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]”, p.14

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• Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

  Euripides

  Silence, House, Quiet

  Euripides (1808). “The Tragedies of Euripides”, p.487

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Mind, Receiving, May

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.333

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• A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Coffee, Food, Men

  John Harvey Kellogg (1881). “Plain Facts for Old and Young”

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• Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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• As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown.

  William Shakespeare

  Bud, Chastity

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.72, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Only the chaste are truly obscene.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Obscene

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• Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Uncles, Husband, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Chaste is she whom no one has asked.

  Ovid

  Sex

  Ovid (1914). “Heroides and Amores”

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• The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

  Cyprian

  Christ, Spouse

  Saint Cyprian (2010). “Treatises (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 36)”, p.100, CUA Press

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

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Passion, Heart, Soul

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• There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger's mark nor to dance after a foreigner's whistle.

  Elizabeth I

  Husband, Eye, Home

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