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    I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
    human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
    myriads of people: they go commonly together.

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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that
are bad for me do not tempt me.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that
are bad for me do not tempt me.

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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.

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When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in read more

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

by Gerald Jampolsky Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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There are several good protections against temptations, but the
surest is cowardice.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the
surest is cowardice.

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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.

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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?

by Robert Browning Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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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!

by Edmund Vance Cooke Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

by Bertolt Brecht Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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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.

by Robert Herrick Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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