temptation quotes

• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. (Henry Kissinger) [temptation/]
• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. (Joey Adams) [worry/temptation/willpower]
• The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. (Thomas Eliot) [temptation/treachery/right]
• As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [temptation]
• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [temptation]
• We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. (William Hazlitt) [find/temptation]
• Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless. ( Ovid) [temptation/idleness]
• At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death. (Cesare Pavese) [temptation/suicide/child/suicide]
• So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil. (Ronald Reagan) [temptation/pride/temptation/facts]
• Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue. (William Shakespeare) [temptation/sin/virtue]
• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. (George Bernard Shaw) [marriage/temptation]
• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. (Mark Twain) [temptation/cowardice]
• I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde) [temptation]
• By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful. (Oscar Wilde) [temptation/men/more]
• Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. (Ambrose Bierce) [temptation/pleasure]

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