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Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to
the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit,
a besotter of the senses, and, finally a mortal bane to all the
body.
Pliny
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust is meanly selfish;
when resisted, cruel; and, like the blast of pestilential
winds, taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms.
Milton
Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the
passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins
against the body and weakens the soul.
Jeremy Taylor
Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, what we most ought
to fear; the headstrong beast rushes along impatient of the
course; nor hears the rider's call, nor feels the rein.
Rowe
When lust, by unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
but most by lewd and lavish acts of sin, lets in defilement to
the inward parts, the soul grows clotted by contagion, embodies
and imbrutes till she quite lose the divine property of her
first being.
Milton
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