He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which read more

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.

I can resist anything except temptation.

I can resist anything except temptation.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it