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Reflective silence holds within it the soft whisper of landscapes yet unfurled, inviting us to concoct meaning from stillness.
Author:
Aurora Stepford
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Too many marshmallows can make even the intense heat seem sweet.
Author:
Sarah Williams
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I can resist anything except temptation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Illicit love is the sweetest temptation, tasting both bitter and divine.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Author:
Sophia Black
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Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on the door forever.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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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.
Author:
William Yeats
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About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.
Author:
Tom Wilson
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Author:
Earl Wilson
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Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.
Author:
Armstrong Williams
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I can resist everything except temptation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Author:
Mae West
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Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Author:
Mark Twain
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It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Author:
Robert South
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The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
Author:
George Smith
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Author:
Georg Simmel
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Author:
George Shaw
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Author:
George Shaw
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Author:
George Shaw
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Author:
Jim Sensenbrenner
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Author:
Victoria Secunda
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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the temptation, which sometimes scientists give in to, to try to assimilate the concepts of theology to the concepts of science.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Author:
John Owen
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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.
Author:
George Orwell
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Author:
Robert Orben
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Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
Author:
Bob Newhart
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Author:
Marianne Moore
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
Author:
H. Mencken
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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.
Author:
Larry McMurtry
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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
Author:
David McCullough
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.
Author:
Roger Mahony
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Author:
John Locke
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Author:
Sam Levenson
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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Author:
Kenneth Latourette
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Author:
Ring Lardner
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Author:
Hans Kung
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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
Author:
DeForest Kelley
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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
Author:
E. Jones
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Author:
Anthony Hope
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
Author:
Don Herold
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.
Author:
Matthew Henry
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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.
Author:
Anna Held
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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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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?
Author:
Robert Hamilton
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That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
Author:
Kathy Griffin
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Author:
Charles Gaulle
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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
Author:
John Gardner
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Author:
Northrop Frye
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Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.
Author:
Jerry Falwell
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
Author:
Frederick Faber
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Author:
T. Eliot
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Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.
Author:
Mike DeWine
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
Author:
Jacques Derrida
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
Author:
J. Coetzee
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Author:
James Cabell
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.
Author:
James Buckley
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Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Author:
Rita Brown
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
Author:
Bertolt Brecht
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
Author:
F. Bradley
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
Author:
Thomas Boston
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
Author:
Ugo Betti
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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.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.
Author:
Anne Baxter
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The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Author:
Fred Barnes
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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.
Author:
James Allen
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Author:
Joey Adams
