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Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction read more
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!
Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold
Will tempt unto a close exploit of death?
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
But something may be done that we will not;
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
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But something may be done that we will not;
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves
When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,
Presuming on their changeful potency.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
