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  • Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

    Sorry   Real   Anger  
    Samuel Johnson (2014). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776”, p.360, Princeton University Press
  • Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

    Sports   Wind   Rags  
    John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 03”
  • Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned latter-day 'Epicureanism' as a fussy, expensive, unphilosophical approach to eating and drinking.

    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

    Dream   Sweet   Luxury  
    Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1990). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”
  • The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

    Exercise   Self   Tyrants  
    Fulton J. Sheen (2008). “Life of Christ”, p.284, Image
  • In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.

    Cancer   Dark   Light  
  • It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint

    Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.488, GENERAL PRESS
  • The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

  • In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

  • Television moves fast, and you don't have the indulgences you have when you're shooting movies of so many takes because there are tight deadlines.

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  • He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

    Lying   Hero   Years  
  • An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence.

    Self   Voice   Community  
  • I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

    Martin Luther (2012). “Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings”, p.45, Fortress Press
  • The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.

    Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”
  • Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin
  • I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

  • Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.

    Christian   Light   Fog  
    C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.

  • Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

    Love   Selfish   Passion  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”
  • I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

    Often Is   Views   Errors  
    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst I ever survived was severe personal and political confusion, the temptation to various sorts of craziness and a couple of bad acid trips. It felt pretty horrendous at the time, and some of it was even dangerous, but Auschwitz it wasn't.

    Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
  • We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

    Distance   War   Example  
    Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.115, Algora Publishing
  • Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

    Self   Ordinary   Speech  
    Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Self-restraint is indulgence of the propensity to forgo.

  • What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

    Lying   Men   Self  
    Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик
  • An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami
  • Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

    Numbers   Soul   Desire  
  • I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

    Self   Awkward   Trying  
    Source: pitchfork.com
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