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There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a

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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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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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values — and witnesses. – Franklin P. Jones

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And so, Reader, (for it is time to have done with guessing) would I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse self-will, unaided by which the other three would be comparatively powerless. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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