Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
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So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!

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

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

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

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.