Temptation Quotes
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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Preschoolers sound much brighter and more knowledgeable than they really are, which is why so many parents and grandparents are sosure their progeny are gifted and super-bright. Because children's questions sound so mature and sophisticated, we are tempted to answer them at a level of abstraction far beyond the child's level of comprehension. That is a temptation we should resist.
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When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
