#temptation

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. ↗

— Jane Byrne

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Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy. ↗

— Mike DeWine

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The thought of superhuman beings with human temptations and flaws sends a chill through me. ↗

— Susan Ee

#susan-ee #temptation

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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You know what, life is full of temptations. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#temptation

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Get thee behind me, Satan! ↗

— P.C. Cast

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