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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to destroy itself.

J. William Schickel
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If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

Jason Evert
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If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future s... by Jason Evert

If you own pornography of any kind, for the love of your future spouse, trash it immediately.

Jason Evert
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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perf... by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion. by John Tillotson

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

John Tillotson
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Unchaste abandon and the self-surrender of the soul to the world of sensuality paralyzes the primordial powers of the moral person: the ability to perceive, in silence, the call of reality, and to make, in the retreat of this silence, the decision appropriate to the concrete situation of concrete action.

Josef Pieper
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I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.

Joseph Scheidler
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Condoms will break, but I can assure you that vows of abstinence will break more easily than condoms.

Joycelyn Elders
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Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better fi... by Lance Morrow

Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Lance Morrow
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The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence." by Lizz Winstead

The fact is, there's no such thing as "The Age of Abstinence."

Lizz Winstead
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Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

Mark Twain
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Denial of one appetite sharpens the others. by Mason Cooley

Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Mason Cooley
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Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will impr... by Mark Twain

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Mark Twain
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Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

Molly Kelly
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Our main reproductive organ is our brain. by Molly Kelly

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

Molly Kelly
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. by Natalie Clifford Barney

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Natalie Clifford Barney
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde
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Abstinence is the surety of temperance. by Plato

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Plato
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Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence... by Rick Perry

Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.

Rick Perry
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue... by Robert Herrick

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

Robert Herrick
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