#temptation

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

— Anthony Hope

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#down #lives #man #men #provided

Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress

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

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#greatest #last #reason #right #temptation

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#into #just #lead #tell #temptation

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#ordeal #resist #temptation #virtue

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#duties #felt #first #force #known