Quotes with tempt

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• Tempt not a desperate man.

  ― William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

  ― Philip Roth
  American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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• He that cannot decidedly say, ''No,'' when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.

  ― Joel Hawes
   
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• I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

  ― John F. Kennedy
  American politician (1917 - 1963)
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• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  ― Pablo Picasso
  Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• difficulties
• particularly
• decidedly
• questions
• employed
• fiction

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