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“Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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“For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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“O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Angelo at II, ii)
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“It is a creature
That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at IV, i)
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“Tempt not a desperate man.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, iii)
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“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that
are bad for me do not tempt me.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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“Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a
surer measure.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at IV, ii)
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“There are several good protections against temptations, but the
surest is cowardice.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes Source: Following the Equator (ch. 36)
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“Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
John Dryden Quotes |
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“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes |
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“Things orbidden have a secret charm.”
Tacitus Quotes |
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“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.”
Horace Mann Quotes |
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“I can resist anything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.”
W. M. Taylor Quotes |
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“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.”
Mae West Quotes |
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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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