Temptation Quotes
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And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage...
John Locke
Nazareth
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
Larry McMurtry
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
Matt Bomer
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
Barack Obama
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We know nothing of the trials, sorrows and temptations of those around us, of pillows wet with sobs, of the life-tragedy that may be hidden behind a smile, of the secret cares, struggles, and worries that shorten life and leave their mark in hair prematurely whitened, and a character changed and almost recreated in a few days. Let us not dare to add to the burden of another the pain of our judgment.
William George Jordan
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Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.
C. S. Lewis
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
Ugo Betti
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
Kathleen Wynne
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Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.
James Allen
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
Oswald Chambers
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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
Philip Kerr
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
Park Chan-wook
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When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.
Oswald Chambers
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
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That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
Kathy Griffin
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
E. M. Forster
