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"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
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"Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
"Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled."
"The temptation to spend money increases as a person's opportunities increase."
"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
"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."
"Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death."
"When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin."
"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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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
"The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins."
"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."
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