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Letter "T" » The Temptations
«Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.»
Author: Earl Wilson
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«If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| About:
Humanity,
Life
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«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
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«Man's desires and pitfalls are placed there so that I may do My work. When you give up totally, then the temptations will fade. I will never give up on you. Every slip will become harder and harder to bear and less easy to remedy.»
«Campaign against the temptations of the senses; Conquer inner foes; Triumph over your ego.»
«Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
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