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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it
I can resist anything except temptation.
I can resist anything except temptation.
It is a creature
That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and read more
It is a creature
That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, read more
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as
the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a
surer measure.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.
For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.