William Shakespeare Quotes, Temptation Quotes

Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

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Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

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

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We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

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Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

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Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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The world can be a challenging and difficult place in which to live. We are often surrounded by that which would drag us down. As you and I go to the holy houses of God, as we remember the covenants we make within, we will be more able to bear every trial and to overcome each temptation. In this sacred sanctuary we will find peace; we will be renewed and fortified.

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We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We're just going to stay the course.

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Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

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What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

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Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there.

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Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

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