Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Temptation

• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Temptation, Gains

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

• 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 temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Success, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

• We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Book, Names

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.90

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