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"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."

Keats, John on adolescence    Share

"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry."

Byron, Lord on adultery    Share

"Adultery is the application of democracy to love."

Mencken, H. L. on adultery
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"But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. [Matthew 5:28]"

Bible on lust
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

Eckhart, Meister on passion
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"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature ."

Dickens, Charles on abstinence
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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