Chastity is a virtue in some, but in many it is almost a vice. To be sure, they abstain, but the bitch "sensuality" glances enviou...sly out of everything they do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring,... and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look how my ring encompasseth thy finger; Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart.... Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It is ...the virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be ab...le to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »