Samuel Richardson Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Temptation, Honest

  Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.94

• An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Littles, Sanctify

• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

• We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

  Samuel Richardson

  Temptation, Goodness, Be Good

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