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"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
"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."
"Blake took a small roll from the tray on the table, then put it back in favor of a larger one. And maybe a little butter. It certainly couldn't hurt. And jam...no, he drew the line at jam. She was a spy, after all."
"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."
"If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?"
"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
"Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected, it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17."
"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
"As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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"January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead."
"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
"You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly."
"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette."
"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
"As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow."
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