Why comes temptation but for man to meet/ And master and make crouch beneath his foot, / And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly is and wholly hopes to be

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Everything tempts the man who fears temptation