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  1. Anonymous _ Dives And Pauper

    Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin {= adultery; extramarital sex}, the woman is not to blame nor is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous heart.
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  2. Neil Gaiman _ Good Omens: The Nice and

    Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.
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  3. C.S. Lewis _ Mere Christianity

    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.
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  4. George Eliot _ Daniel Deronda

    No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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  5. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Deathly

    Power was my weakness and my temptation.
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  6. Edmund Spenser

    With golden giftes and many a guilefull wor
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  7. Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre

    Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
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  8. Susan Vreeland _ Girl in Hyacinth Blue

    She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably cried too much, just like her, a woman afraid, wanting to believe rather than believing {...}
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  9. Tom Stoppard _ Arcadia

    Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me-I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.
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  10. Jeanette Winterson _ Written on the Body

    When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself, deaf to pleading and unmoved by violence. Love is not something you can negotiate. Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation....When I say 'I will be true to you' I must mean it in spite of the formalities, instead of the formalities.
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  11. R.C. Sproul _ Pleasing God

    Satan's chief device of temptation is to attack the truth of God.
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  12. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    . . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?
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