A Quote by Edmund Morgan

The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist the temptation to make the most of it.

Edmund Morgan

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Edmund Morgan
American - Historian
January 17, 1916 - July 8, 2013

The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.

Gore Vidal

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Horace Mann

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)

Lauren Weisberger

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

Warren Buffett

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.

C. S. Lewis

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Horace Mann

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Oscar Wilde

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

Giorgio Napolitano

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Bill Bryson

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

Margaret Atwood

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

John Quincy Adams

ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.

Michael Hayden

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

Warren Buffett

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

Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Oscar Wilde