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• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  Thomas Boston

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• The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called ‘Evan Almighty’ proved when it floated ashore recently. So there’s a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams’s uneven but occasionally funny ‘License to Wed.’

  Stephen Hunter

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• He that labours is tempted by one devil; he that is idle is tempted by a thousand.

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• You never know what you’re made of until temptation comes knocking. The only temptation I’ve given in to is to have one more slice.

  Donna Lynn Hope

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• Temptation is impossible for me to resist… Come on. This is Hollywood. It’s in the job description.

  Tom Sizemore

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• It’s obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

  Michael Shannon

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• We sometimes confuse the feeling of temptation with that of giving into temptation. The danger here is that sometimes, feeling that we have allowed ourselves to fall, we despair of ourselves and allow ourselves to fall further.

  Shraga Silverstein

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  The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

  Rita Mae Brown

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• If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

  E. B. White

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• I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.

  Mae West

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• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

  Robert Browning

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• Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.

  Billy Sunday

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• Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values – and witnesses.

  Franklin P. Jones

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• Temptation to behave is terrible.

  Bertolt Brecht

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• When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

  Gerald G. Jampolsky

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• Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

  George Orwell

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• The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

  George A. Smith

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• Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

  Georg Simmel

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