#indulge

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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I am pretty self-indulgent. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. ↗

— Christine Baranski

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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws. ↗

— David Brainerd

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. ↗

— George Washington

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