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“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I deal with temptation by yielding to it”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.”
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“I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it”
Mae West Quotes |
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“Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
Gerald Jampolsky Quotes |
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“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
T.S. Eliot Quotes |
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“Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help”
Proverb Quotes |
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“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
William Butler Yeats Quotes |
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“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him.”
Bible Quotes Source: James (ch. I, v. 12)
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“But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men.”
Bible Quotes Source: Matthew (ch. XVI, v. 23)
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“Terrible is the temptation to be good.”
Bertolt Brecht Quotes Source: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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“Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: The Ring and the Book--The Pope (l. 1,185)
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“What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Address to Unco Guild (st. 8)
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“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
Robert Burton Quotes Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sec. II, memb. 3, subsect. XIII)
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“So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!”
Edmund Vance Cooke Quotes Source: Desire
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“The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Felix Holt (ch. XLVII)
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“Thou shalt abstain,
Renounce, refrain.
[Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Faust (I, 4)
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“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that
are but skin-deep.”
Matthew (Mathew) Henry Quotes Source: Commentaries (Genesis, III)
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“Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Hesperides-Temptations
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“Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: The Catspaw
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“But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 351)
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“But something may be done that we will not;
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Presuming on their changeful potency.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Troilus at IV, iv)
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“Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at III, iii)
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“How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life and Death of King John (King John at IV, ii)
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