Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which read more

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of
human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted
myriads of people: they go commonly together.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
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So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!

It is easier to stay out than get out.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.