#temptation

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. ↗

— Robert Orben

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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

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Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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