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How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by t

How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope

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One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. – Alexander Pope

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Observation
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. – Alexander Pope

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People
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We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so. – Alexander Pope

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

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

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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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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Partir, cest mourir un peu. (To leave is to die a little.) – Proverb

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. – Loren Eiseley

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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. – George Eliot

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