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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

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

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.

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!

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

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

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back When gold and silver becks me to come on.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

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

O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is that temptation that doth goad us on To sin in loving virtue.

It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many and be beguiled by one.