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Tempt not a desperate man -- William Shakespeare
Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love. -- Mark Akenside
Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger. -- Ruth Graham
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. -- George Savile
There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in. -- Zoe Sugg
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. -- George Bernard Shaw
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. -- Pablo Picasso
Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up. -- Lillete Dubey
Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. -- Saxby Chambliss
A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that. -- Alton Brown
The religions that fascinate me and, you know, could possibly tempt me are not the ones that involve faith or belief. They're the ones that offer you the opportunity to know the spirit or deity. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird. -- Ethan Hawke
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. -- Catherine the Great
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage. -- Richard G. Scott
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. -- W. Clement Stone
What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if you're okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later. -- Paul Schneider
There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful. -- Sofia Vassilieva
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any. -- Otis Williams
With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent. -- Henry B. Eyring
Instead of piling up food in my fridge that says 'Come eat me!' I keep enough for only a couple of days. And I rarely have treats around that might tempt me late at night, which is when I usually crave something really fattening. What am I going to do? Drive out at 11 at night just to satisfy a craving? No, that's crazy. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
God tests, but he does not tempt. -- Criss Jami
Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps. -- Mira Grant
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them. -- Charles Spurgeon
Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation. -- Bob Hope
You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure. -- Brandon Sanderson
Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you. -- Margaret Atwood
Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded. -- Julius Nyerere
The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed. -- Jeremy Taylor
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. -- Mike Tyson
The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man. -- Henry David Thoreau
A dish around which I see too many people doesn't tempt me. -- Julien Green
When a person wants nothing, it's evil to tempt them with something. -- Marty Rubin
I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me. -- Mason Cooley
I never reach those far-off places. New trails tempt me at every turn. -- Marty Rubin
The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own. -- Thomas a Kempis
The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity. -- George Eliot
The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin -- Wayne Grudem
It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men. -- Wilson Mizner
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness. -- Thomas Hardy
Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor. -- Hilda Doolittle
The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity. -- George Eliot
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. -- John Milton
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. -- George Savile
Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control. -- Karen Azinger
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. -- Jean-Paul Aron
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. -- Charles Caleb Colton
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin. -- Saint Augustine
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency. -- William Shakespeare
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited. -- Henry A. Kissinger
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark. -- James Montgomery
To deny ones' true nature and the gifts given you by the gods is to tempt disaster. You cannot hide behind the mask forever. -- Midori Snyder
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise. -- Philip Roth
To you I belong.My heart beats only for you.No other will tempt me,from this day and beyond.To you I belong. -- Gena Showalter
The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God. -- Bob Jones, Sr.
Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me. -- Dwight L. Moody
The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire. -- James Harrington
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. -- Hilaire Belloc
We know that passion, prejudice, party, and even good-will, tempt many who preserve a fair character with the world to deviate from truth in the laxity of conversation. -- Laurence Fishburne
Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you. -- Carl Jung
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum. -- Frederick Douglass
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. -- George Crabbe
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. -- Jane Austen
Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate. -- Blaise Pascal
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way. -- Oliver Goldsmith
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. -- Seneca the Younger
Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore. -- Horace
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills. -- Emanuel Lasker
...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us... -- Gunter Grass
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about the misery of man, and they tempt you to despair. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha. -- Rick Riordan
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. -- Alexander Pope
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon. -- Thomas Carlyle
Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you. -- Shannon L. Alder
Humility is hard when someone has things like wealth, knowledge, & recognition that may tempt him/her behave and act pridefully. Otherwise, worrying about pride without these factors that predispose you, it is just an illusion. -- Assegid Habtewold

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