Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
When you doubt, abstain.
I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
I can resist everything except temptation.
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
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.
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