#temptation

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#beautiful girls #beg #communities #homes #i

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#human #little #settle #temptation #too

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. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#cultural #direction #flows #i #i can

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#duty #ever #farther #heard #loudest

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation. ↗

— Tom Wilson

#fighting #fun #losing #more #only

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#may #pass #temptation #way #yield

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#contains #even #permanent #temptation

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. ↗

— Anthony Hope

#becomes #must #somebody #temptation #thing

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

#gravitate #heart #his #man #responding

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#because #deems #every #every man #hardest