Mark Twain
“It is easier to stay out than get out.”
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Benjamin Whichcote
“None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.”
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William Penn
'Tis no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.
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Author Unknown
“Good habits result from resisting temptation.”
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Lane Olinghouse
“Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.”
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Proverbs 1:10
“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”
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William James
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.”
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Terence
“Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.”
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Sterling W. Sill
“No temptation is a temptation, unless we are entertaining it."
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James 1:14
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
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2 Peter 2:9
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations…”
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Neal A. Maxwell
“If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!”
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Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
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Horace Mann
“He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.”
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William Shakespeare
“Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.”
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John Dryden
“Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
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E.H. Chapin
“Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.”
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James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
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Walter Bagehot
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
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Margaret Oliphant
“Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”
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John Lubbock
“There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist.”
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Orlando A. Battista
"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you second chances."
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Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
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Samuel Johnson
“Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.”
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Frederick Faber
“Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.”
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Mark Twain
“There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.”
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T.S. Eliot
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
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Author Unknown
“Satan convinces us that even hell doesn't seem so bad if you don't have to go there right now.”
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Randal Wright
“The Adversary seldom loses when you play on his playing field. It’s called the home court advantage.”
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William Penn
“God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil, than in many formal prayers.”
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Robert South
“He who has no mind to trade with the Devil should be so wise as to keep from his shop.”
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Madeleine de Scuderi
“The virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.”
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William Makepeace Thackeray
“If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?”
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Robert Herrick
“Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.”
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Robert Orben
“Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”
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Earl Wilson
“Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.”
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Alexander Pope
“But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.”
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James 1:2-3
“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
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Horace Mann
“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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James M. Paramore
"A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary."
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Romans 8:2
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.”
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Richard L. Evans
"If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one."
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant "Goliath" and do with him as David did to the Philistine of Gath!"
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Franklin P. Jones
“Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values and witnesses.”
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Aristotle
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”
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James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
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Franklin P. Jones
“What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.”
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Winston Churchill
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”
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William Shakespeare
“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.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.”
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James Branch Cabell
“There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.”
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W. N. Taylor
“Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.”
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Robert Browning
“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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Matthew 26:41
“Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.”
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Luke 8:13
“They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.”
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William Penn
“For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“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.”
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Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no waters."
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Anne Baxter
“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.”
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Augustus William Hare
“The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.”
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Edmund Vance Cooke
“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!”
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William Butler Yeats
“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.”
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Joseph De Maistre
“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.”
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.
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1 Corinthians 10:13
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
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Erma Bombeck
“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.”
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Horatio Seymour
“After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.”
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E. B. White
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.”
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Horace Mann
“The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters--where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.”
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E.H. Chapin
“It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.”
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