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Quotations by Subject: Temptation
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
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Ancient Proverb
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
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Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Apple Cart (1930)
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
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Lane Olinghouse
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
I can resist anything but temptation.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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Robert Orben
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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W. N. Taylor
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
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