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#tempt

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America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.


Toby Young


#contempt #failure #itself #more #people

The police called it choking, but I called it a two-handed neck hug. That’s how I knew she really loved me. 



Jarod Kintz


#attempted-murder #authorities #choke #choking #crime

Mma Ramotswe sighed. 'We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.' That is true,' said Mma Potokwane sadly. 'There are many temptations in this life, but cake is probably one of the biggest of them.


Alexander McCall Smith


#ramotswe #temptation #life

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God.


Jon Bloom


#christianity #love-of-money #poverty #temptation #love

The reason I don't Kill Myself is because I know I can.


Stanley Victor Paskavich


#mental-disorders #mental-health #suicide #suicide-attempt #mental-health

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.


John Newton


#legalism #temptation #religion

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.


Sivananda Saraswati


#duty #mind #spirit #temptation #temptation

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, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.


Oscar Wilde


#self-control #temptation #temptation

He's a clever little thing, isn't he?" She leaned in to drop a kiss on the kitten's soft head, reaching to move him off Griffin's chest. He reached for her hand, stopping her. "And what about me?" he asked, his eyes burning into hers. "What about you?" "Am I not clever enough for a kiss?" His voice was gruff. She favored him with a shy smile. "You're more than clever enough, Griffin Channing.


Michelle Zink


#griffin #griffin-and-helen #griffin-channing #helen #helen-cartwright

Most people want to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.


Robert Orben


#temptation






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