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Example sentences for "resist temptation"

  • It was in the theatre that he fell into bad company--it was there he lost his strength to resist temptation; and being once overcome, he surrendered himself, a willing captive to the service of iniquity.

  • He has a will to resist temptation, but though he may clear a small temptation, he may fall at a large one.

  • Or He could have made a man who would be strong enough to resist temptation.

  • Perhaps, if a man pray for strength to resist temptation, or for guidance in time of perplexity, and if he have faith, his prayer shall avail him something.

  • The social glass has been many a man's ruin, dear Arthur; and it is better to resist temptation in the beginning, than to fight the influence of liquor in the end.

  • Taint my fault if he can't resist temptation," replied the other, doggedly.

  • Thus do I recover strength to resist temptation.

  • The baseness and the ridiculous meanness of the action were still further increased in his eyes by the reflection that what prompted him to it was the fear of not being strong enough to resist temptation.


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