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  • Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

  • So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

  • I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.

    "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.
  • Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

    Men   Feet   Temptation  
    'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1184
  • Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  • It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

    Walter Bagehot (1968). “The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: The historical essays. v. 5-8. Political essays”
  • All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

  • Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

    Temptation   Duty   Heard  
  • It is easier to stay out than get out.

    Following the Equator ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)
  • 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.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  • Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

    Eye   Men   Afterlife  
    Joseph de Maistre (2017). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment”, p.235, Routledge
  • There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

    James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com
  • God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

    William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.840
  • Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

  • A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  • Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed (1778). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: With Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.459
  • For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

  • Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

    Orlando Aloysius Battista (1981). “Quotoons: a speaker's dictionary”, Perigee
  • Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

    Hurt   Temptation   Satan  
    Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.231
  • The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

    Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)
  • Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

  • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

    Time   Men   Temptation  
  • He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

    Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.70
  • I can resist everything except temptation.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Witty  
    Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25
  • But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

    Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1797). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Life of Alexander Pope. Poems”, p.266
  • Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

    Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.533, The Floating Press
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