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Letter "T" » Temptation
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath
promised to them that love him."
Author: Bible
About: Temptation
"But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of men."
Author: Bible
About: Temptation
"Terrible is the temptation to be good."
Author: Bertolt Brecht
About: Temptation
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
Author: Robert Browning
About: Temptation
"What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted."
Author: Robert Burns
About: Temptation
"I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people: they go commonly together."
Author: Robert Burton
About: Temptation
"So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!"
Author: Edmund Vance Cooke
About: Temptation
"The devil tempts us not–'tis we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunity."
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
About: Temptation
"Thou shalt abstain,
Renounce, refrain.
[Ger., Entbehren sollst du! sollst entbehren.]"
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
About: Temptation
"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that
are but skin-deep."
Author: Matthew (Mathew) Henry
About: Temptation
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