Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.[Ring Lardner] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:Good habits result from resisting temptation. [Mark Twain] Definitions of: temptationDefinition: The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.Definition: The state of being tempted, or enticed to evil. Definition: That which tempts; an inducement; an allurement, especially to something evil. |
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