George Eliot Quotes About Temptation
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No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
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The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.
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I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
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Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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