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"I can resist everything except temptation."
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"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."
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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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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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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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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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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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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
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"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
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"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
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"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth."
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"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
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