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I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Anthony Kiedis
drug temptation thinking

This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

Anthony the Great
temptation christian men
Expect temptation to your last breath. by Anthony the Great

Expect temptation to your last breath.

Anthony the Great
breaths lasts temptation

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Anthony Trollope
power temptation years
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organ... by Aristotle

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

Aristotle
eye temptation listening

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Arthur Conan Doyle
data form temptation

It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.

Arthur Goldberg
temptation rights war
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind tha... by Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

Arthur Koestler
satan dangerous temptation
...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on th... by Arthur Koestler

...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

Arthur Koestler
defeated temptation sleep
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attracti... by Arthur Miller

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Arthur Miller
artist temptation trying

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
temptation prayer evil

The difference between those whom the world esteems as good and those whom it condemns as bad, is in many cases little else than that the former have been better sheltered from temptation.

Augustus William Hare
differences temptation world

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.

Ayn Rand
judgment temptation facts

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

Ayrton Senna
strong temptation needs
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming tem... by Barbara Hambly

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Barbara Hambly
hypothesis wizards temptation

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Barry Lopez
gaps apples temptation
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent? by Basil Bunting

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting
madness temptation age

Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

Ben Harper
temptation relationship fall
Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret o... by Benjamin Franklin

Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another.

Benjamin Franklin
eye temptation hands

Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned.

Benjamin Whichcote
deeds temptation sometimes
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