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96 quotesDo not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Temptation
Joey Adams
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.
Literature
George Age
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Saintliness is also a temptation.
Saints
Jean Anouilh
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Flattery
Minna Antrim
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Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Modern and Modernism
Bryan Appleyard
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The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil.
Devil
Arabian Proverb
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Entertainment
Lester Bangs
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Temptation
Orlando A. Battista
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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Abstinence
Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.
Bureaucracy
William Blake
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Poetry and Poets
Maxwell Bodenheim
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke
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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Memory
James Branch Cabell
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Uncategorised
Edmund Burke
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Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.
Fate
Lord Byron
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Winston Churchill
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It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
Patience
William Cobbett
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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
Temptation
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Impossibility
Bette Davis
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This became a credo of mine: attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Possibilities
Bette Davis
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
Translation
Sir John Denham
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A wish is a desire without an attempt.
Wish and Wishing
Farmer Digest
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In politics, nothing is contemptible.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli
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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Failure
Thomas A. Edison
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun