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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
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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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"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
Writing
"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
Society
"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."
Life
"The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship."
Science
"May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."
Love
"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip."
Trust
"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."
Food
"Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run."
Simplicity
"She found as always that words on paper proved themselves, they were so beautifully true."
Literature
"If you got good elective officials in your day, it was a happy accident, better than you deserved."
Politics
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