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Temptation Quotes
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
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"You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd."
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"Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself."
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"That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did 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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"Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you."
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"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
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"Temptation is a strong weapon that Satan uses against the children of God."
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."
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"We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives."
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"Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy's ground...All the same, it is His invention, not ours...All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden...An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula."
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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them."
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"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
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"It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once."
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"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."
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"I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them."
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"Nicolai, the Dark Seducer as his people called him, had been in bed, but not alone. He was never alone. He was a man known for the violence of his temper as well as the deliciousness of his touch."
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"She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape""anywhere""for anyone? It was worth murdering a world."
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"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
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"So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear,Circular base of rising folds, that toweredFold above fold, a surging maze! his headCrested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes;With burnished neck of verdant gold, erectAmidst his circling spires, that on the grassFloated redundant: pleasing was his shapeAnd lovely; never since of serpent-kindLovelier."
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"And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play 'you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine."
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"The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
30
"The Dragon King's gaze turned to her. Darcy watched him standing in the glow of the streetlight, completely mesmerized by the dragon tat that ran from the King's right shoulder, under his armpit, and down his side to the top of his right thigh. The dragon's head was at the front of the man's shoulder and had his mouth open as if on a roar. He was rearing with his wings up and out. It was his long tail that stopped at the King's thigh. The King glistened with sweat that made his muscles gleam in the light. Darcy had the absurd notion to run her hands all over his body, learning the feel of his hard muscles and warm skin."
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"Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell."
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"Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it."
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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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"Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down."
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"Wisdom makes it even more likely that you will be exposed to the danger of fornication."
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"Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them."
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"Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker."
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"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
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"Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
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"I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them."
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"Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor."
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"Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances."
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"There's nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don't get too close. - Patch."
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