#temptation

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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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

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#lives #our #our lives #points #several

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

#generally #i #resist #temptation #unless

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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