#tempt

Compassion is contempt with a human face. ↗

— John McCarthy

#contempt #face #human #human face

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#christianity #come #down #exclude #give

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease. ↗

— Keith Miller

#attempts #because #best #calm #christian

So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children. ↗

— Maria Monk

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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#annihilate #attempted #especially #every #mass

It's very tempting to over-eat all the bad things when you're on a film set. ↗

— Roger Moore

#film #film set #set #tempting #things

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#destruction #often #others #perish #plot

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#becoming #color #common #contempt #else

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#curtain #deep #deep south #early #effect