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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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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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"His foe was folly and his weapon wit."
Wit
"Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
Genius
"Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?"
Truth
"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation."
Poetry
"I may not understand, but I am willing to admire."
Understanding
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
Temptation
"Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible."
Genius
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