10 Metaphors for temptation

It is upon the farm that virtue should thrive the best, that the body and the mind should be developed the most healthfully, that temptations should be the weakest, that social intercourse should be the simplest and sweetest, that beauty should thrill the soul with the finest raptures, and that life should be tranquillest in its flow, longest in its period, and happiest in its passage and its issues.

A mere temptation is our life, (Austin, confess.

CAILLIÉ, RENÉ, French traveller in Africa, born in Poitou, the first European to penetrate as far as Timbuctoo, in Central Africa, which he did in 1828; the temptation was a prize of 10,000 marks offered by the Geographical Society of Paris, which he received with a pension of 1000 besides (1799-1839).

So little did they regard their love as one essentially for concealment, that the temptation to include Jenny in their bond was at moments a danger.

Thus his Peg Woffington is a study of stage life from behind the scenes; A Terrible Temptation is a study of social reforms and reformers; and Put yourself in his Place is the picture of a workingman who struggles against the injustice of the trades unions.

Daimler motor-car in your shed for years and years and still deny yourself the pleasure of going out on the public road with iteven though you know you are not a very competent driver; and you cannot continue for half a century perfecting your military and naval organization without in the end making the temptation to become a political road-hog almost irresistible.

Face to face with the terror of darkness, there is hardly anything of which mankind will not repent; and I have sometimes thought that the darkest and heaviest temptation in the whole world is the temptation to yield to a craven fear, when the sincere conscience does not condemn.

He knew well what his particular temptation was, namely this instinct of self-preservation, and constantly thought and meditated about it.

Did the consolations come first, and were the temptations a revulsion from "spiritual" exaltation into "spiritual" collapse and melancholy? or did the temptations come first, and the consolations come after, to save her from madness and despair?

Christ's temptation in the wilderness is the theme, and Milton follows the account in the fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel.

10 Metaphors for  temptation