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• Tis Lilith.
  Who?
  Adam's first wife is she.
  Beware the lure within her lovely tresses,
  The splendid sole adornment of her hair;
  When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare,
  Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Hair, Wife

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2008). “Faust”, p.178, PR Seitz Bookseller

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• If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Truth, Fishes, Humans

  Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.6, Knopf

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• The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Knowledge, Exhilaration, Ancient

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2004). “Exuberance: The Passion for Life”, p.180, Vintage

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• Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Reality, Dare, Unreal

  Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

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• Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

  Alfred Austin

  Dream, Stars, Fall

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• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

  Franz Kafka

  Self, Literature, Association

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

  Orville Prescott

  Children, Book, World

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• Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Wise, Hope, Promise

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

  George Jean Nathan

  Powerful, Looks, Fetch

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.221, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

  Erica Jong

  Beauty, Men, House

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• PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Temptation, Add

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

  Gautama Buddha

  Motivational, Positive, Inspiring

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• If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

  Catherine Tate

  Stars, Play, People

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• The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.

  Tana French

  Wall, Ocean, Animal

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• Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man?

  Rachel Vincent

  Men, Assuming, Attractive

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.532, Harlequin

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• Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

  Janette Rallison

  Motherhood, Men, Smell

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

  Bart Yates

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• You know, people always warn children about taking candy from strange adults. But they never warn us adults about taking candy from strange children. All those sweet-looking kids who sell boxes of candy bars on the street to help pay for schooling - how do we know what's in those bars? And don't even get me stated on that nefarious institution designed to lure unsuspecting customers into buying mysterious frosted goodies: the bake sale. Adults, be warned: if a child wanted to poison you it would be a piece of cake! Literally a piece of cake.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Sweet, Children, Kids

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• This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

  Malcolm Douglas

  Water, Gorges, Chance

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• The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew Him down from heaven. Our nature attracted Him rather than the nature of angels. Our misery caused Him to stoop to our lowness. Even our sins had a sort of attraction for the abundance of His mercy and the predilection of His grace. Our repentance wins Him to us. Our love makes earth a paradise to Him; and our souls lure Him as gold lures the miser, with irresistible fascination

  Frederick William Faber

  Jesus, Blessed, Angel

  Frederick William Faber (1855). “The blessed sacrament: or, The works and ways of God”, p.510

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• The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.

  David Douglas

  Moving, Journey, Hiking

  David Douglas (1987). “Wilderness sojourn: notes in the desert silence”, Harper San Francisco

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• Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cutting, August

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.128, Macmillan

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• There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.

  Sterling Hayden

  Hollywood, Enough

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