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If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? - William Makepeace Thackeray Every Christian is endued with a power whereby he is enabled to resist temptations. - John Tillotson There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Following the Equator (ch. 36) Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 2) Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. - Marguerite de Valois To attempt to resist temptation, to abandon our bad habits, and to control our dominant passions in our own unaided strength, is like attempting to check by a spider's thread the progress of a ship of the first rate, borne along before wind and tide. - Benjamin Waugh Could'st thou boast, O child of weakness! O'er the sons of wrong and strife, Were their strong temptations planted In thy path of life? - John Greenleaf Whittier, What the Voice Said The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) The way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Temptation hath a music for all ears. - Nathaniel Parker Willis When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long. - Daniel Wilson Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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