Prone to temptation as men are, and beset by a thousand wrong impulses, we may well seek to block this and that path of possible wrongdoing without fear of turning them mechanically into saints.
There would be no temptation to adulterate goods, and less of a temptation to award contracts or franchises to friends -since there would be no private profit in it.
And it is impossible to maintain public allegiance to a white list in face of thetemptation of bargain sales.
This will give your new beginning such a momentum that the temptation to break down will not occur as soon as it otherwise might; and every day during which a breakdown is postponed adds to the chances of its not occurring at all.
Besides strengthening our own wills, it is wise to seek in every way to remove temptation from our path, and, if need be, to run away from it.
The absence of temptation will leave an instinct dormant which free opportunity to indulge will develop into a dominant appetite.
The elimination of private profit from business would give freer room for the development of a social spirit which is now choked out by the temptation that each owner of a business is under to grab all that he can for himself.
Moreover, we are subject to bias, to individual one sidedness, and to the distortion of passion; in the stress of temptation we are not in a mood to reason judicially, even if we have the necessary data.
Attempts at legalization and localization are frank admissions of inability or lack of desire to fight the evil; their effect is to make the way of temptation easier for the youth.
Nothing in the whole field of ethics is more important than for each generation, as it stands on the threshold of temptation and opportunity, to see clearly the basic reasons for our hard-won and barely maintained code of chastity.
The absence of the need of working, and the possibilities of pleasure seeking which money affords, are a constant temptation to them to live a life of ease.
Municipal theaters would be under no temptation to produce nasty plays.
Temptation to evil had often come to Maurice Frere, and his selfish nature had succumbed to it when in far less witching shape than this fair and innocent child luring him with wistful eyes to win her.
Though her time was evidently precious, she could not resist the temptation of listening to praises of herself.
Graft is sometimes supposed to be temptation peculiar only to our own times, but the opportunities for it have always been present in such work as Coulomb had to oversee, and the army engineer of all ages has had to stand or fall before it.
After three years of retirement, his English Alma Mater demanded his services, and the temptation to get back to an academic career was so great that he could not resist it.
In 1838 his successor Pie Namur yielded countless times to the temptation to cite books from secondary sources, which moreover he does not name.
He has yielded to the temptation to include titles of no pertinence like treatises on systems of cataloguing (Nos.
Stein yields to the same temptation to which his predecessors had succumbed.
The temptation was more than his boy's soul could resist.
He fought thetemptation to take Virginia with him on his trips and then succumbed.
The Westerner couldn't resist the temptation to draw him out.
I couldn't resist thetemptation to butt in, Cinda.
No loans are granted to political or personal friends, at the risk of the Government, and alltemptation to needless and hurtful expansion is thus destroyed.
If such an offer were made, it must have presented a strong temptation to the emaciated captive, whose physique had already lost the elasticity and vigour of his early manhood, and was showing signs of his grievous privation.
There seems to be a precise analogy between temptationand the microbes of disease.
In dealing with temptation and sin, we must always take into account the presence in the human heart of that sad relic of the Fall, which biases men towards evil.
So temptation would have no power over us, if we were in full vigour of soul.
Temptation is not so remote that their resolution is not in continual exercise, nor so near that it is tasked beyond its strength.
I dare not take it, doctor," he said, and put the damnable temptation behind him.
By this time it is evening, when all the apparatus of temptation is in the fullest activity, and all the loose population of the town is abroad.
A drunkard, in short, is a person so diseased by alcohol, that he cannot get through his work without keeping his system saturated with it, or without such weariness and irritation as furnish irresistible temptation to a debauch.
There is great temptation to delay, because the acuteness of the problem is not felt here as yet, among the well-to-do, and still more because it differs in different communities.
How remarkable in our eyes is his resistance to any temptation which might lead him away from his end.
It has been the constanttemptation of angry popular masses in the past, when the Jewish problem has come to a head not once but a thousand times in various parts of our civilization during the last twenty centuries.
The Jew has often felt himself so handicapped if he declared himself, that he was half forced, or at any rate grievously tempted, to a piece of baseness which was never a temptation for us.
Evans, who had remained adamant to temptation when everything was going well with him, fell at the sight of his ill health.
It would be a great temptation to go--to see Miss Thorne as an Indian," he answered, smiling his admiration at her.
She had never felt any temptation to do so until Lydia had been so indifferent about the loss of the bracelet.
He made her beauty and wealth seem a disadvantage--a terrible temptation to an ambitious young prosecutor with an eye to newspaper headlines.
The temptation is almost irresistible, but then Truth is always one flight higher up, so one reflects, what's the use?
Only on the terrace in front of the Public Library is there any temptation for tarrying and consideration.
There is a fascinating slate yard at 1525, where great gray slabs lie in the sun, a temptation to urchins with a bit of chalk.
Perhaps, half starved, he succumbed to the temptationof a moment.
I have killed two better men than you to-day when they were charging upon me at full speed, and well protected with armour; judge then what chance you have, standing there a rank temptationto an honest archer.
That is to offer too much temptation even to the honest poor.
But nothing is quite perfect in history, and one usually feels that one could have arranged the incidents more dramatically one's self; indeed, some historians seem to have found the temptation irresistible.
You think that if the fortune fell into my hands, the temptation would be too strong for a poor man like myself?
The temptation was again too strong for one who had been brought up in an atmosphere and culture of sport.
Possibly when the temptation gripped him he ceased to reflect at all--else he must assuredly have recognised all that he was sacrificing for the mere possession of money that he could never live to spend.
He believed Waller had simply yielded to temptation when he accepted the Frenchman's gold and agreed to work in his interest.
Although the grass might be exceptionally fine close up to the trees, the temptation to feed in closer was resisted by the buffaloes.
That time will pass to thee in this place as if it were only a hundred minutes, but it is time enough for temptation and sin.
But follow me not, for with every step would the temptation become stronger, and thou wouldst come into the hall where grows the Tree of Knowledge.
Every time that thou resistest the temptation wilt thou gain more strength, till at length it will cease to tempt thee.
It is a great temptation to console oneself for the shortcomings of the social life around, by building up an imaginary picture of social life as it might be, full of romantic adventures and pleasant conquests.
Again, how do the clouds of temptation sometimes thicken over the Christian's way--temptations from within and without.
There will doubtless be many days when this world will look more desolate than ever, days of temptation and of conflict.
You and I, Christian, have sailed in such latitudes, and heard the winds of temptation blow, and felt the waves of distress dash over our frail bark.
He had been severely tempted, and had put the temptation behind him.
The absurd temptation to remain and see what would come of it got over my better judgment.
The young second officer hesitated to break the established rule of every ship's discipline; but at last could not resist the temptation of getting hold of some other human being, and spoke to the man at the wheel.
He even resisted thetemptation to look back till it was too late.
One's very conception of virtue is at the mercy of some felicitous temptation which may be sprung on one any day.
Mr. Adister complimented him on the robustness of his habits, and Patrick 'would like to hear of the temptation that could keep him from his morning swim.
Footnote 237d-3: If the valuation were made to depend on the purchase price or on the cost of replacing or restoring the damaged property, even this would be some temptation to not entirely upright men.
Will you not write me a word of forgiveness for resisting thetemptation to go to you?
Thank you," said Edward, "you are removing a terrible temptation from my way, and helping to make me stronger and less ignoble than I am.
She expected a visit from her father that evening, and the temptation to show him what she could do and dare was irresistible.
