Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter.
Of the people who possess these virtues, who live without thoughtlessness, and who are emancipated through true knowledge, the tempter, never finds the way.
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.
As a fish taken from his watery home and thrown on dry ground, our thought trembles all over in order to escape the dominion of the tempter.
Those who bridle their mind which travels far, moves about alone, is without a body, and hides in the chamber (of the heart), will be free from the bonds of the tempter.
Knowing that this body is (fragile) like a jar, and making this thought firm like a fortress, one should attack the tempter with the weapon of knowledge, one should watch him when conquered, and should never rest.
The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.
So gloz'd the tempter.
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