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Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

That is why success and fruitfulness depend as much upon focusing on the "who" you are as much as the "what" of the work you do. Invest in your character, and it will give you the returns that you are looking for by only investing in the work itself. You can't do the latter without the former.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements.

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

The attraction of power we take for granted in politics.. But in economics...the thrust...is for pecuniary return, for money. And I have always felt that denies in the economic world a very large part of the motivation.

The best art on a football field usually happens during kickoff returns.

The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call your holiday 'hell-day.'

The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.

The coming cooling of the planet overall will return it to where it was in the '60s, '70s, and '80s.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.

The demand that women "return to femininity" is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to a fabled time when everyone was richer, younger, more powerful.

The development of man is a return to an original perfection.

The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

The end of creation is that all things may return to the Creator and be united with Him.

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.

The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

The hard part of loving is that one has to learn so often to let go of those we love, so they can do things, so they can grow, so they can return to us with an even richer, deeper love.

The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low