Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
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Book X : The Pope, line 1185.Robert Browning
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We are and remain such creeping Christians, because we look at ourselves and not at Christ; because we gaze at the marks of our own soiled feet, and the trail of our own defiled garments....Each, putting his foot in the footprint of the Master, and so defacing it, turns to examine how far his neighbor’s footprint corresponds with that which he still calls the Master’s, although it is but his own.
George MacDonald
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.
John Selden
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
James Anthony Froude
And the snake who'd held the world, a stick, a carrot and string
Was crushed beneath the foot of Your not wanting anything.Aaron Weiss
Everyone is master of his own destiny. Those who do not know how to be commanded do not know how to command. Temptation is the law of Maya (illusion). One who can withstand it knows the law of life: assess your 1) stamina 2) potential 3) basic flexibility, and know where your emotions are.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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