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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.


Matthew Henry

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Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Most dangerous is that temptation that doth good us on to sin to loving virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Amazing how eye and skin color come in many shades yet many think sexuality is just gay or straight.
DASHANNE STOKES O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous Is tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Life's irony;Some are small in statue,but with deep,giant & sometimes dangerous minds.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in...
BILLY GIBBONS Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W. N. TAYLOR Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
W N TAYLOR Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.
W. M. TAYLOR At the moment no one can prove that these Internet stocks are overpriced. But many of us have deep s...
RICHARD THALER Every temptation comes with a choice.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Matthew 6:33 Many of us openly clap hands to those that seek first the kingdom and the ridiculous th...
TIPSON N MOKGOPHA There are many colours of roses to be used in different situations, but there must be a colour inven...
VIKRANT PARSAI Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
REDD FOXX Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
DOROTHY PARKER Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense
KIN HUBBARD As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but ri...
MARGARET CAVENDISH He made him a coat of many colours.
BIBLE I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage ha...
BRUCE VILANCH You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Silent men like still waters, are deep and dangerous.
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DAN BUTLER We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS A KEMPIS We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS KEMPIS We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.
THOMAS Ã KEMPIS How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How ...
STAN BRAKHAGE We have an immediate need on special teams. As we evaluated our special teams, we determined it was ...
BRONCO MENDENHALL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Beauty is only skin deep...but ugly goes all the way to the bone!
UNKNOWN Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestal...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedesta...
ROBERT BROWNING All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
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JIMMY NEAL God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal Prayers.
WILLIAM PENN Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pede...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so b...
ROBERT BROWNING Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be p...
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MARGARET ANDERSON I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mi...
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APURVA GAGLANI The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
...

That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Irony is only skin deep.
MARTY RUBIN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we...
MICHELLE MORAN Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like...
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CHRISTINA LAUREN The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.
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PORTIA DE ROSSI Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail...
DON DELILLO No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. Bu...
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PHYLLIS DILLER A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING We expect that many of these people will be in very deep trouble by the time they come to us,
JOEL GREENBERG Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
KIN HUBBARD October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.
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ADAM SANDLER Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
PAM GRIER I'd never understood how Carlisle was able to do that - ignore the blood of his patients in order to...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.
DIANNA HARDY Our drivers are overly aggressive. And, in many cases, dangerous.
TONY GOMEZ Sad how many of us live by shaded truth, where is that fine line?!?
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LESLIE FIEDLER Our girls are hungry and that makes us a dangerous team.
DAVID ARDOIN Undoubtedly, one of the reasons God allows us to fall before temptation so often is to teach us expe...
JERRY BRIDGES Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he neve...
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JACK JOHNSON We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep prima...
JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN Politics: Poly.
MANY Brody's not gay. But then he kisses a boy. So he might be gay? No, Brody's not gay. But he loves thi...
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JAMES A. MICHENER It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer res...
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MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND