The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows read more

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

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!

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.

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?

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

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain read more

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.