'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
This is the short and the long of it.
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.
I bear a charmed life.