"Resisted temptations become lost opportunities."
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"The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity."
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"There's a lesson in every temptation."
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"The two great words of antiquity are behold and beware. Behold the possibilities and beware the temptations."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me."
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"There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it."
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"One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys."
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"It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together."
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"Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency."
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"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."
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"The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation."
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"God has great plans for you, directed towards helping you do what Jesus Christ did when He was on earth. This requires you do resist temptation vigorously, with special confidence in the assistance of His Divine Goodness. Courage then, Monsieur. Be faithful to Him, and the Divine Goodness will be favorable to you."
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"There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues."
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"It is opportunity that makes the thief."
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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?"
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"...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will."
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"Retarget your money. When your money comes in, you need to have already targeted where you are going to invest or doodad temptation will set in."
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"I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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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."
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