Tempts Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent…
— George Chapman
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
— C.S. Lewis
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
— Saint Augustine
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
— Norm MacDonald
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
— James Russell Lowell
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always…
— Martial
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to…
— Booker T. Washington
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The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was…
— Marianne Williamson
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The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
— Paulo Coelho
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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come…
— John Wilmot
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
— E. M. Forster
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From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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There is a certain indolence in us, a wish not to be disturbed, which tempts us to think that when things are quiet, all is…
— A J Muste
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I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the…
— Maxfield Parrish
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
— Frank Herbert
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Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
— Joseph Sobran
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There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is…
— Robert Ringer
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