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    O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint,
    With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous
    Is that temptation that doth goad us on
    To sin in loving virtue.

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But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for read more

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men.

by Bible Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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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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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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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.

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

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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.

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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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I deal with temptation by yielding to it

I deal with temptation by yielding to it

by Mark Twain Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

by Horace Mann Found in: Temptation Quotes,
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