SO GOOD QUOTES

Divert them [sensual desires] with some laudable employment, and take off their edge by inadvertency, or a not-attending to them. For since the faculties of a man cannot, at the same time, with any sharpness, attend to two objects, if you employ your spirit upon a book or a bodily labor, or any innocent and indifferent employment, you have no room left for the present trouble of a sensual temptation.

—Rev. Jeremy Taylor, On Christian Sobriety – Rules for suppressing Voluptuousness., The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Volume 3. THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING AND DYING….: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living and Dying