Quotes with continence

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  St. Augustine of Hippo
  Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

  John Milton
  English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• distinguish
• knowledge
• apprehend
• pleasures
• wayfaring
• christian

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