"Vanity is a natural object of temptation to a woman."
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"When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."
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"Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works."
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"The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper."
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"Capacity for joy Admits temptation."
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"You are out of the way of temptation and out of the way of the tempter - I didn't mean to make you wicked - but I was - and am - and shall be - and I was with you so much that I couldn't help contaminate."
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"I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved."
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"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?"
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"Temptation to behave is terrible."
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"[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession."
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"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light."
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"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."
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"Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature."
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"Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children."
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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"Power was my weakness and my temptation."
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"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."
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"Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them."
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