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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be brok

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. – Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object. – Charlotte Dacre, The Passions, 1811

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Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia

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An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys. – Vida D. Scudder

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