All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

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The Whole Works of Jeremy Taylor, vol. 2 (London: Ogle, Duncan, and Co., 1822), p. 13

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