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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

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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women. – Jeremy Taylor

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

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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer

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