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«There is not any memory with less satisfaction in it than the memory of some temptation we resisted»
Author: James Branch Cabell | About: Memory | Keywords: resisted, satisfaction, temptation
«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham | Keywords: conquering, disappointments, fiber, fibers, fund, funding, helps, hindrance, hindrances, moral character, represents, rightly, strengthen, temptation, temptations, Trials, uses
«Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.»
Author: Lane Olinghouse | Keywords: address, flee, flees, forwarding, generally, temptation
«The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.»
Author: Thomas Merton | Keywords: biggest, settle, temptation, too little
«We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.»
Author: Thomas Kempis | Keywords: shows, temptation, usually
«The only way to handle temptation successfully is to yield to it»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: handle, successfully, temptation, yield
«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
«The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: but, can, Everything, get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, resist, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
«Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: bow, bowing, bow out, Cupids, idleness, remove, take a bow, temptation, useless
«We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: gain, resist, strength, temptation, The Temptations
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