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• All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

  Sterling W Sill

  Entertaining

  "That ye might have life".

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• A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

  James M. Paramore

  Commitment, Overcoming, Way

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Trying

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Taste

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, World, Nests

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• Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Advice, Fit, Dear

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• Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Struggle, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.

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• If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Struggle, Feelings

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hard Work, Honest, Workers

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Television, Useless

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• Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stress, Men, Barbarians

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sacrifice, Men, Reflection

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1926-1929”, Ivan R Dee

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• Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sea, Bird, Missing

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.275, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

  Ben Jonson

  Lying, Doors, Judging

  Ben Jonson, Robert S. Miola (2000). “Every Man in His Humour: Quarto Version”, p.145, Manchester University Press

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• Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

  Michael Josephson

  Sex, Self Esteem, Names

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• Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Lying, Passion, Waiting

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)

  Billy Graham

  Firsts, Satan, Adam

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• (You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

  Pat Conroy

  Watches, Chickens

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.90, Open Road Media

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Fall, Judging

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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.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Battle, Weakness

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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.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• I think when you're trying to produce a relationship on screen that doesn't actually exist, perhaps sometimes there's a temptation to look at each other more, to touch each other more...

  Paul Bettany

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  "Paul Bettany: Playing Darwin with Creation". Interview with Adam Rutherford, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.

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• I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

  Brett Davern

  Stuff, Marvin, Old Stuff

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• From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

  Keith Urban

  Evil, Matter, Cradle

  Song: You're Not My God, Album: Golden Road

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