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• Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Errors

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.406, Cambridge University Press

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• God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Honor, Suffering

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

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• On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease.

  Derrick Rose

  Mom, Halloween, People

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• Afflictions are meant for our spiritual benefit; we are
  sometimes tempted that we may learn to pray the more.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spiritual, May, Benefits

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• I want an open dialogue. I want husbands and wives and people in relationships to walk out of the theater thinking, "Could this happen to me? I know I'm being tempted."

  Tyler Perry

  Husband, Thinking, People

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• If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

  James Anthony Froude

  Dream, Book, Character

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4

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• You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you.

  Elias Hicks

  Devil, Without You, Within You

  Elias Hicks (1825). “A Series of Extemporaneous Discourses: Delivered in the Several Meetings of the Society of Friends”, p.166

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• Temptation may even be a blessing to a man when it reveals to him his weakness and drives him to the almighty Savior. Do not be surprised, then, dear child of God, if you are tempted at every step of your earthly journey, and almost beyond endurance; but you will not be tempted beyond what you are able to bear, and with every temptation there will be a way of escape.

  F.B. Meyer

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

  Irving Babbitt

  Democracy, Quests, May

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.138, Transaction Publishers

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• He's earned all his money himself, with his fists. He didn't steal it like the rest of our politicians. And he'll be less tempted to steal if he gets in the chair.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fists, Fighter

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• Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Expression, People

  "Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 24, 2013.

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• All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Men, Doors

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won't dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.

  Alan Cooper

  Running, Powerful, Hopeful

  Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing

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• Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live. There is in men, as Peter Quennell said, "a centrifugal tendency." In our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.

  Anatole Broyard

  Country, Travel, Men

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• A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Temptation, Coats

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cake, Mma, Temptation

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• There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Parent, Sloth, Sin

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• Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.

  Frank Abagnale

  Moral, Honest, Employers

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• The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his masculinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Passion, Boys

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• I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.

  John Legend

  Focus, Sound, Degrees

  "EXCLUSIVE: John Legend Talks New Album, Film Ventures, NBA Predictions, Marriage, More". Interview with Elle Breezy, singersroom.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.

  Craig Ferguson

  Tattoo, Beer, Years

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", en.wikiquote.org. 2005 - 2014.

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• And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for a long time, when you wake up every morning with a rising sense of hysteria, then boredom is what you want, marathon sleeps, a silence in yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Pain, Sleep

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayes”, p.74, Vintage

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• The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

  Edith Wharton

  Hands, People, Golden

  "Complete Works of Edith Wharton".

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• I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I step on the gas really hard and the car screeches as I leave the light.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Light, Car, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Aug 24, 2012

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• I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Firsts, Napkins, Used

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