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That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with read more
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one read more
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.
There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia read more
When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pudicitia alia abneurit.]
The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the read more
The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian's temple--dear Valeria!