#tempt

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve. ↗

— Davey Havok

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Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. ↗

— Robert Herrick

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Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

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In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

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A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd. ↗

— Anthony Hope

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