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“To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.”

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Ivan Panin

Ivan Panin was a notable scholar in the fields of mathematics and linguistics. His research encompassed number theory, symbolic language, and biblical coding. Details of his life and achievements require further investigation. more

“The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is like the letting out of waters-where a drop can go, a river can go. Whoever yields to temptation, subjects himself to the law of falling bodies.”

Body Law Fall Water Subjects Rivers Increase Resistance Temptation Yield Attributes Repetition Diminish Formidable Ratios Velocity

Book:Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

Source: Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College

“No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.”

Men Wells Has Beens Art Temptation Tempted

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.”

Men World Way This World Battle Shots Temptation

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer.”

Thinking Heart May Facts Would Be Lying Prayer Secret Moral Fields Spring Weak Temptation Ease Fearful Liable Campfire Watchfulness Sentinels

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Temptation hath a music for all ears.”

Ears Temptation

Book:The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis

Source: The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis

“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.”

States Reason Use Feelings Fear Knowing Imagine Drug Bigger Who You Are Comparison No Reason Frightened Pale Knowing Who You Are

Book:Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Causes Fear Hurt Protect Defense Fearful Being Hurt Been Hurt

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.”

Inspirational Kind Faces Fear Laughing Greater Love You

Author:Alex Flinn

“We cannot love when we feel fear. When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”

Feels Past Fear Forgiving Release Oneness Fearful Been Hurt

Author:Gerald Jampolsky

“All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.”

Fear Can Do Newspapers Sickness Hang In There Puke

Author:Jennifer Rardin

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