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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.
Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.
There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation.
We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance.
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength.
We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones.
The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.
Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.
Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?
O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell
Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.
Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
When fleeing the scene of temptation, do not leave a forwarding address.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.
Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.
There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.