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«To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Keywords: strive, yield
«The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.»
Author: Francis Herbert Bradley | Keywords: blow, resistance, struggle, The Force, yield
«What then have I done? What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust.»
Author: Vicomte de Valmont | Keywords: bounds, inspired, prompted, prompting, sanctioned, sanctions, yield
«Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements»
Author: John Calvin (Statesman, Theologian) | About: Religion | Keywords: allurement, allurements, carried, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, corrupt, entices, enticing, external, fans, flames, flesh, instill, instilled, instilling, instills, poison, Satan, the commission, The Flames, willingly, yield
«The only way to handle temptation successfully is to yield to it»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: handle, successfully, temptation, yield
«The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn»
Author: Martin Luther (Priest, Scholar) | Keywords: bear, devil, drive, drive out, flout, flouts, jeer, jeered, jeering, jeers, scorn, scorning, scripture, texts, the Devil, yield, yield up
«The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
«The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: but, can, Everything, get, Getting There, get rid of, He Who Gets, only, other ways, resist, rid, ridding, rids, rid of, Rid of Me, temptation, The Temptations, to get, to it, way, yield, yield up
«There are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: requires, temptations, terrible, yield
«The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Government, Liberty | Keywords: gain ground, ground, The Natural, yield
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