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Yield Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
- While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain…
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
- Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and…
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- 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…
- We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had…
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
More Yield Quotes
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- Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. — Gary Becker
- The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on… — Joseph Addison
- Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue. — Ambrose Bierce
- The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. — Louis D. Brandeis
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- It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our… — Sitting Bull
- Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit… — Maria Weston Chapman
- One time or another we all face adversity's chilling wind. One man flees from it, and like an unresisting kite falls to… — David O. McKay
- The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their… — Laozi