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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. (Quote by - Anna Hoppe)

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? (Quote by - Robert Browning)

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

I can resist anything except temptation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. (Quote by - John Wycliffe)

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 temptations we resist. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. (Quote by - Mae West)

It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

What I wanted to do was similar to what I did with [the 2003 soundtrack for] `The Fighting Temptations,` ... That was both a gospel album and a contemporary album. Here we have old and young: an adult AC record as well as a rhythmic record. (Quote by - Matthew Knowles)

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence. (Quote by - Elizabeth Missing Sewell)

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. (Quote by - Orlando A. Battista)

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. (Quote by - John Milton)

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch (Quote by - Robert Orben)

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man`s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. (Quote by - Robert Bork)

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. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)

The most important lesson I`ve learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did. (Quote by - Penelope Cruz)

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. (Quote by - Bible)

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. (Quote by - James Branch Cabell)

I beg you to look at the promising boys and beautiful girls in your homes and in your communities, and then you will not put these temptations in their way. (Quote by - Thomas Jordan Jarvis)

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? (Quote by - Robert Browning)

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. (Quote by - Eduardo Galeano)

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

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