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" Quotes and Sayings About tempt

Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'

Across After Am August
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Error Interest Liable Many
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There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Surer Decay Country Religion
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Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Addictions Attempts Because Best
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Contempt Know Me Toward
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Another Attempt Being Love
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.

Advice Against Battle Bible
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

Contempt Envy Grant High
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

Alchemy Although Considered Contempt
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Everything Get I Can Only
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Generally I Avoid Temptation
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Bad Because Found Me
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There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Attempting Dissatisfaction Fact Life
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
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Before you are tempted to get depressed, consider those who have a harder life than you and yet are happy.
Depressed Harder Life Happy
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Attempted Done Earned Nights
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Attempted Begun Close Done
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Always Attempt End Enterprises
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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The biggest temptation I believe is to feel comfortable, to feel like you've worked through all of that here on Earth, and are satisfied with this life.

Believe Biggest Comfortable Earth
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
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I have contempt for the Buharists and I pity Nigeria.
Contempt Buharist Pity Nigeria
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Belief Better Contempt God
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Be impermeable, smile, and laugh at their feeble attempt to put a chink in your armour.

Impermeable Smile Laugh Feeble
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Any Attempt Brutal Comprehensible
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It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Great Folly Makes Early
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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Man Watches Pear Tree
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Attempt Child First He
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Attempted Changes Effect Great
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

General Duped World Attempted
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What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
Use Great City Temptation
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Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

Attempt Absurd Achieve Impossible
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Anything Bear Bitter Fortune
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Attempt Doubts Fearing Good
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Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Dangerous Doth Loving Most
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

Against Better Blow Depends
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A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the heart are open to tempting conquest.
Poet Need Trouble Leis
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A young man was very excited to see his President at the Argungu fishing festival. He made to walk straight to him for a handshake. Security details prevented it. Now, opposite people are passing it off as an attempt to attack the President. How malicious can some people be!

Young Man President Festival
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Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration ..

Work State Over-anxiety Use-up
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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.

About Animal Animals Belong
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Attempting Down Most Muse
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Abandon Absurdity Apparent Because
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When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

Write Handful Unruly Strands
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Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!

Poet Unhealthier Regular Temptations
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