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• Men should do their actual living and working in communities small enough to permit of genuine self-government and the assumption of personal responsibilities, federated into larger units in such a way that the temptation to abuse great power should not arise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Responsibility, Power, Men

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• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Heart, Animal

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• When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

  Ayrton Senna

  Strong, Needs, Not Happy

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• I have one reason why you should walk away from that temptation right now. One reason: God. Is. Better.

  Francis Chan

  Reason Why, Should, Walks

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• The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Stakes, Temper

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

  Laird Barron

  Fear, Curiosity, Cognition

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

  Sterling W Sill

  Entertaining

  "That ye might have life".

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• If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Entertaining, Ifs

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• Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Merit, Chiefs

  Samuel Johnson (1966). “Johnsonian miscellanies”, Constable

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• A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

  James M. Paramore

  Commitment, Overcoming, Way

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• We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.

  Robert E. Wells

  Disappointment, Character, Trying

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Taste

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, World, Nests

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

  Ellen G. White

  Church, Atonement, Christ

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• Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

  Richard Simmons

  Lying, Order, Oysters

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Advice, Fit, Dear

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• Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Struggle, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.

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• If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Struggle, Feelings

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Waiting, Corruption

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.10, Vintage

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• Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hard Work, Honest, Workers

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.5

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• Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations, as years of TV radiation have left your genitals withered and useless.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Television, Useless

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• When God has not taken away our trouble or temptation yet, with His grace in our lives, we are content.

  T. B. Joshua

  Taken, Grace, Trouble

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• Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stress, Men, Barbarians

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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