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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

‘Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!