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"Why resist temptation? There will always be more."
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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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"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
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"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
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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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"Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back."
Want
"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."
Work
"Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people."
People
"It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter."
Life
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
Intelligence
"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it."
Wisdom
"If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones."
Life
"The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance."
Appearance
"Why resist temptation? There will always be more."
Temptation
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