"Tempted" é uma canção da banda de rock britânica Squeeze. Escrita pela equipe de compositores da Squeeze, Glenn Tilbrook e Chris Difford, a canção apresenta letras inspiradas nas experiências de Difford em uma turnê americana e um arranjo inspirado nos Temptations. "Tempted" é uma das poucas canções da Squeeze com Paul Carrack como vocalista principal, por sugestão do produtor Elvis Costello.
“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.”
“Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
“Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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