Persons under the influence of the drug have less power to resist physical and mental impressions and they easily succumb to temptations and suggestions from others.
Greater temptations assail the cashier or clerk with greater opportunity for speculation, and the banks, as many authorities will agree, have not made enough use of the machinery available to put a stop to embezzlement.
This, devil-like, is suitingtemptations to inclinations.
Not having been born in Virginia and not having thus acquired from birth a repugnance to association with the Africans upon a footing of social equality, they yielded to the temptations of the situations in which they were placed.
Some men suffer their most grievous temptations in the beginning of their conversion, some at the end.
Restrain my many wandering thoughts, and carry away the temptations which strive to do me hurt.
In temptations and troubles a man is proved, what progress he hath made, and therein is his reward the greater, and his virtue doth the more appear.
There is no position so sacred, no place so secret, that it is without temptationsand adversities.
There is no man wholly free from temptations so long as he liveth, because we have the root of temptation within ourselves, in that we are born in concupiscence.
Many who seek to fly from temptations fall yet more deeply into them.
We need one kind in time of temptations and others in time of peace and quietness.
He who only resisteth outwardly and pulleth not up by the root, shall profit little; nay, rathertemptations will return to him the more quickly, and will be the more terrible.
These often fall into great temptations and sins because of their pride and curiosity, for I am against them.
Even though Thou dost expose me to divers temptations and adversities, Thou ordainest all this unto my advantage, for Thou are wont to prove Thy beloved ones in a thousand ways.
And remember that these temptations proceeded not only from adventurous buccaneering acquaintances in the taverns of that evil haven of Tortuga, but even from M.
In retrospect the sensations she had felt and the temptations that had urged her seemed distasteful.
And her anger toward the imperturbable dowager was the anger of a virtuous woman toward one whose temptations she was unable to resist.
These brighttemptations to idolatry, From darkness, and confusion, took their birth; Sons of deformity!
Temptations seize, when fear is laid asleep; 325 And ill foreboded is our strongest guard.
Such were the temptations which, in those days, beset every young man who dreamed of accomplishing something in life, and they beset me in my turn; but there came a day when I dealt with them decisively.
Temptations to palter with my conscience; victory over them.
There may be much faltering, stumbling, and temporary defeat; difficulties and temptations manifold to be battled with and overcome; but if the spirit be strong and the heart be upright, no one need despair of ultimate success.
The sage, whose broad brow rose above the group like some torrent furrowed Alp, scathed with all the temptations and all the sorrows of his race, watched with a thoughtful smile that preacher more mighty than himself.
God; yielding in a hundred little points, and some great ones, to the infernal temptations of a public school.
And soon, and soon, till you have plucked your eye as clean of temptations and snares as it is possible to be in this life.
I must set off with a clear idea, like the beam of a lighthouse through the deformities and temptations of night.
The frailty of your virtue and the strength of your temptations I know not.
He yielded to temptations which a censor less rigorous than I would have regarded as venial, or, perhaps, laudable.
He tells a jealous husband, who watches his wife, that the greater his precautions, the greater are the temptations to sin.
But they are subject to temptations which a prudent man like myself may perhaps do well to avoid.
No one can meet your temptationsfor you, or fight your battles, or endure your trials.
Help to endure temptation is not promised when there are notemptations to be endured.
Our temptations and hardships, met victoriously, knit thews and sinews of strength in our souls.
Rather fierce temptations strike a man, every few days, in this world.
I have heard him say, 'Edith is my slogan,' and I have seen him march home strong in the strength of his love for you, in the face of temptations before which every other man of us fell.
Now did my chains fall off my legs indeed; I was loosed frorn my afflictions and irons; my temptations also fled away; so that from that time those dreadful scriptures [Footnote: Numb.
And now I am upon this subject, I will a little further walk and travel with these desponding ones, and will put a few words in their mouths for their help against temptations that may come upon them hereafter.
Their lusts prick them, suitable temptations present themselves; wherefore, they return to their own crooked ways again.
Their great sins give great encouragement to the devil to assault them; and by these temptations Christ takes advantage to make them the more helpful to the churches.
Hence his temptations are compared to the roaring of a lion.
True, death-bed temptations are ofttimes the most violent, because then the devil plays his last game with us; he is never to assault us more.
People are constantly walking by sight, lured by the temptations of men and of the world.
Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.
Swim through yourtemptations and troubles to be at that lovely, amiable person, Jesus, to whom your soul is dear.
The devil and temptations now have the advantage of the brae of you, and are upon your wand-hand, and your working-hand.
Temptations will come, but if they be not made welcome by you, ye have the best of it.
On visiting her the night preceding her death, she said to him, "I never had so few temptations as now.
Christ under my temptationsis presented to me as lying waters,[348] as a dyvour and a cozener!
God grant that in my temptations I come not on His wrong side again, and never again fall a raving against my Physician in my fever.
Temptations, that I supposed to be stricken dead and laid upon their back, rise again and revive upon me; yea, I see that while I live, temptations will not die.
My very dear and noble Lord, ye have rejoiced the hearts of many, that ye have made choice of Christ and His Gospel, whereas such great temptations do stand in your way.
Let not faith be dazzled withtemptations from a dying Deputy,[418] and from a sick Prelate.
I need not either bud or flatter temptations and crosses, nor strive to buy the devil or this malicious world by, or redeem their kindness with half a hair-breadth of truth.
Our joy is laid up in such a high place, as temptations cannot climb up to take it down.
I thought temptations came from without; I could withstand such, and I did, even when it wore Adam's shape.
You never seemed a child to me, Sylvia, because you have an old soul in a young body, and your father's trials and temptations live again in you.
Under the peculiar state of things occasioned by the great temptations to crime, and the utter want of all the ordinary apparatus of justice, during the earlier periods of the settlement of California, this was unavoidable.
That the large majority was moved by such an exalted motive cannot be doubted; but temptations are always about; everyone is the Adam of his own soul, and there may have been a few that desired the change for less worthy motives.
But the temptations that Egypt presented faded almost as soon as they had arisen, and he deemed that it might be better for him to choose a city oversea.
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