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temptation
«Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.»
Author: Earl Wilson
| Keywords:
call, duty, ever, farther, heard, loudest, notice, take notice, temptation, The Temptations, The Whisper, whisper
«Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil.»
Author: Marc Williams
| Keywords:
evil, opportunity, over, temptation, the Triumphs, triumph, triumphed, triumphing
«All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.»
«Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstainer, abstainers, denying, temptation, yields
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Bachelors,
Funny,
Temptation
| Keywords:
converts, permanent, persistently, public, remaining, temptation
«Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all told, as required, courage, Do, really, requires, strength, Tell, tell on, temptation, temptations, terrible, There are, The Telling, The Temptations, think, weakness, yield, yields, yield up