Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. Taylor
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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain Following the Equator (1897)
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I can resist anything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
James Branch Cabell
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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 The Apple Cart (1930)
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare (King John) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
Romans 7:15 Holy Bible
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A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's
In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Temptations discover what we are.
Thomas a Kempis "Early Light," InTouch Magazine, October 1998.
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Ancient Proverb
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Virtue which has never been attacked by temptation is deserving of no monument.
Mlle. de Scudery Treasury of Women's Quotations
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
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Prosperity doth best discover vice but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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