#temptation

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. ↗

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. ↗

— Robert South

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It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once. ↗

— Anna Held

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#because #found #i #me #never

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#combines #marriage #maximum #opportunity #popular

The very good people did not convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands - and you hated the things it asked of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference. That was what I'd never known before - and it's better than anything I've known. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#responsibility #temptation #age

Power was my weakness and my temptation. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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Our response to temptation reveals the substance of our faith. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#faith

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#self-knowledge #temptation #funny

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. ↗