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Alexander Pope
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
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Anonymous
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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Bible
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.
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Bible
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.
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Douglas Jerrold
Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
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Edmund Vance Cooke
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!
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Eduardo Galeano
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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H. L. Mencken
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
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Horace Mann
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
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James Branch Cabell
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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John Dryden
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
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John Milton
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Joseph De Maistre
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
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Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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