#temptation

Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. ↗

— Wayne W. Dyer

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Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. ↗

— Anonymous

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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

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Chapter Eleven: C’mon good girl, be bad. ↗

— Nicki Elson

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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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