#temptation

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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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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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it. ↗

— James Allen

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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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Whatever their bodies do affects their souls. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #funny

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. ↗

— Thomas Boston

#fire #heart #temptation #up

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#becomes #bend #better #career #congress