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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
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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."
"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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