Capacity for joy admits temptation. [ Mrs. Browning ]
He who loves praise, loves temptation. [ Thomas Wilson ]
I can resist everything except temptation. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. [ St. James ]
The lesser the temptation, the greater the sin. [ Proverb ]
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution.
She lives, whom we call dead. [ Longfellow ]
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]
In love, the only way to resist temptation is to sometimes succumb to it. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]
Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. [ Colton ]
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Nature will sometimes lie buried a great while, and yet revive upon occasion of a temptation. [ Proverb ]
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue. [ Junius ]
People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones. [ Channing ]
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]