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• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Oil, Childhood, Age

  "Oil USA". Book by Thomas Chi, p. 7, December 1, 2011.

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• The only thing I can really trust is my own self-indulgence.

  Justin Vivian Bond

  Self, My Own, I Can

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, People, Excuse

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While overeating would be seen by some as an indulgence of self, it is in fact a profound rejection of self. It is a moment of self-betrayal and self-punishment, and anything but a commitment to one's own well-being.

  Marianne Williamson

  Betrayal, Commitment, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

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• So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Heart, Law

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Desire, Want

  "Impact of a Father's Reflection". Book by Frank L. Day, p. 44, 2010.

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• One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

  Edmund Wilson

  Art, Believe, Giving

  Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”

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• It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .

  John Ridley

  Achievement, Black, Individuality

  "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.

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• Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

  James Wolcott

  Children, People, Alcohol

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• What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

  Richard Mentor Johnson

  Religious, Rights, Government

  "Discovering the American Past: A Look at the Evidence, Volume I: To 1877". Book by William Bruce Wheeler, Volume 2, p. 149, January 1, 2011.

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• I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.

  Mitch Daniels

  Ink, Debt, Red

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• Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Identity, Facts, Monsters

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• The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.

  Duane Elgin

  Inspiring, Moving, Simplicity

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• God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We do not ask favors or indulgence but ask that, if You will, use us as Your instrument for the right and an aid in returning peace to the world.

  Robert Lee Wolverton

  Sacrifice, Enemy, Battle

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• What's the ultimate price I'll pay if I don't stop this indulgence now? By asking questions like this, they'll associate pain to overeating, and their behavior will change immediately.

  Tony Robbins

  Pain, Loss, Asking Questions

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.219, Simon and Schuster

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• In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Numbers, Religion

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• Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Pain, Perfect

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• A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.

  P. D. James

  Healthy, Development, Surveillance

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.23, Vintage

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• There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

  William Cowper

  Children, Exercise, Rights

  1783 Letter to Rev William Unwin, 7 Sep.

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• I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Men, March

  Rod Serling's speech at Moorpark College in Moorpark, California, December 3, 1968.

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• And so I continue in borderline poverty, save for my one indulgence, no, my single absolute necessity: I take cabs. Yes, on occasion, when I wish to see what people with unpleasant skin conditions are wearing, I do take the subway. I have never, I am proud to say, taken the bus, because people who take the bus have given up.

  Paul Rudnick

  Taken, People, Wish

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• The gossip is like chocolate - a small indulgence in an otherwise serious diet.

  Roxanne Roberts

  Gossip, Chocolate, Serious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Self, Nests, Indolence

  "The Church Times" by The Diocese, Volumes 8-10, p. 189, 1897.

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• I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent.

  George Mason

  Children, Views, Parent

  Letter to his son, George Mason, January 8, 1783.

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