"Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect."
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"Temptation hath a music for all ears."
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"Virtue is insufficient temptation."
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"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."
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"No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted."
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"Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
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"Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall."
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"Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations."
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"One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers."
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"Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations."
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"We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!"
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"Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain."
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"Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way."
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"No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it."
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"Where faith is not continually kept in motion and exercised, it weakens and decreases, so that it must indeed vanish; and yet we do not see nor feel this weakness ourselves, except in times of need and temptation, when unbelief rages too strongly; and yet for that very reason faith must have temptations in which it may battle and grow."
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"The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same."
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"The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood."
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"When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust."
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"He who cannot resist temptation is not a man."
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"He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise."
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