Quotations on Temptation | Quotations: 35 | Pages: 4
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by Garrison Keillor (August 7, 1942 - ) |
A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it. |
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by Alexander Woollcott (January 3, 1887 - January 23, 1943) |
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. |
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) |
As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist. |
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by William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on. |
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by John Dryden (August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare. |
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. |
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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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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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by William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. |
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by William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light. |
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Authors with quotations on topic Temptation:
Bible (9)
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Brecht, Bertolt (1)
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Burns, Robert (1)
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Dryden, John (1)
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Eliot, T(homas) S(tearns) (1)
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1)
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1)
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Keillor, Garrison (1)
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Maugham, William Somerset (1)
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Shakespeare, William (11)
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Shaw, George Bernard (1)
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Twain, Mark (2)
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West, Mae (1)
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Wilde, Oscar (2)
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Woollcott, Alexander (1)
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