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to yield

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. Thomas Jefferson

The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. Herbert Read

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. Robert Frost

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