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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
Ambition
"Death, only death, can break the lasting chain;And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain."
Death
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
Wisdom
"What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate'er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
Morality
"Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found."
Literature
"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."
Humility
"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."
Criticism
"Tis education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
Education
"Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies."
Honor
"The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still."
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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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"Be confidently assured that any 'gods' that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
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"Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end. Mortification is not virtuous in itself, nor has any other use, but that it disengages us from the allurements of sense. In the state of future perfection, to which we all aspire, there will be pleasure without danger, and security without restraint."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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