I should have shouted "No" and left him. "But at least" said Satan in the deeps of my mind, "know what the temptation is before you do anything hastily.
Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
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Steve Maraboli
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Mae West
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
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P.g. Wodehouse
God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and...
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Criss Jami
If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets.
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Anthony T. Hincks
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Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.
Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.
And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.
