Logo
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and ma

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 which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Chastity
category

Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. – William Shakespeare

Category:
Chastity

A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Category:
Chastity

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens 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 ejected at the pleasure of Another! – C.S. Lewis

Category:
Chastity

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

Category:
Chastity

Random Quotes

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future –and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. – Albert Camus

Category:
Love :: Relationships

When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves. – Eleonora Duse

Category:
Helping

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me. – Liam Neeson

Category:
movies

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances. – Julie Bishop

Category:
Medical