Oscar Wilde Quotes, Yield Quotes, Temptation Quotes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

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World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.

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The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

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Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.

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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

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It is fitting for a great nation to yield.

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But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

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Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Passion Quotes , Yield Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

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Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

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Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!

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The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat.

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Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

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Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

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