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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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"As soon as a person gives place to the devil in his life, the devil has this person hooked."
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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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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"Fornication is a snare that a person sets for himself."
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"She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell.Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it.And it's delicious."
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"Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering."
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"One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge."
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
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"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."
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"Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?"
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Friendship
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Experience
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
Progress
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
Power
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Man
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
Man
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Happiness
"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
Grief
"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
Healing
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