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96 quotesWhere grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Grief
Samuel Johnson
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We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
Temptation
Thomas Kempis
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
Pornography
D. H. Lawrence
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
Temptation
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Failure
Cassius Longinus
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation
H. L. Mencken
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Abuse
H. L. Mencken
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Chastity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
Virtue
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
Fear
James Northcote
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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Money
Austin O'Malley
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptation
Margaret Oliphant
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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Achievement
Ovid
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Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.
Temptation
Ovid
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Success tempts many to their ruin.
Success
Phaedrus
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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Wealth
Alexander Pope
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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Devil
Alexander Pope
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Vulgarity
Alexander Pope
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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
Religion
Ezra Pound
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Habit
Proverb
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Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.
Hatred
Proverb
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Some evils are cured by contempt.
Hatred
Proverb
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We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
Belief
Ruth Ross
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Action
Robert H. Schuller
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What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
Possibilities
Robert H. Schuller
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun