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#temptation

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


Gustave Flaubert


#temptation

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


#earnest #man #measure #needs #praying

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


Anna Held


#once #rings #temptation #wear

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


#temptation #weakness #death

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.


C.S. Lewis


#funny






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