A Quote by Albert Einstein
Only strong characters can resist the temptation of superficial analysis.
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Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.
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.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead. The great thing is to make people intelligent enough and strong enough, not to keep away from temptation, but to resist it.
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.
The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.
Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)
The only thing I can't resist is temptation.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.
Resist the temptation to subject yourself only to that which re-affirms what you already think.
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation.
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.
People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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