Tempt

Famous quotes containing the word tempt:

“Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune’s pow’r;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treach’rous shore.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)

“Don’t crouch any more and cling to my knees,
don’t tempt me and try me,
don’t beg like a child and cry,
“you have taken my hope away.”
I am not a god.
I cannot make you happy.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)