Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.
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A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation sober counsels and ingenuous actions open deportment and sweet carriage sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding love of God and self-denial peace and confidence holJeremy Taylor
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
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A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
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Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Dive on them and squash them if you must.
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