Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
EXCESS, n. In morals, an indulgence that enforces by appropriate penalties the law of moderation.
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.
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.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
A proper balance must be struck between indulgence and severity. However, severity, despite occasional mistakes, is preferable to a lack of discipline.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.
The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
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