"No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all."

-- Herbert Spencer

#Men Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Age Quotes

“African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.”
“We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. Weâ€™ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan â€¦ weâ€™re probably more excited that weâ€™ve ever been about Sherlock.”

Source : "'Sherlock' producer says season 4 story is 'devastating'" by James Hibberd, www.ew.com. August 25, 2014.
“I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.”
“You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.”
“It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.”
“Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent”
“If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.”

Source : Harry Huntt Ransom (1962). “The Vision of Karl Hoblitzelle”

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