Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close knit communities, and our faith in God , too many… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Excessive indulgence to others, especially to children is in fact only self-indulgence under an alias. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
If you give up on trying to change larger structures and just go off on what some would say is a personal… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to… — Rob Brydon Copy Share Image
Of the two great political parties which have divided the opinions and feelings of our country, the candid and the just will… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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