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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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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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"Every sexual sin begins with flattery."
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"The word lust can mean "selfish desire". . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay."
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"To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude."
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"Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thingThe Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
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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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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
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"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
Spiritual
"The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave."
Ambition
"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."
Responsibility
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man."
Humility
"Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind."
Character
"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Knowledge
"Order is heaven's first law."
Wisdom
"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."
Wisdom
"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."
Life
"Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can."
Humor
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