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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.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
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«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
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«If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination»
«Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bent, bents, bent on, denial, establishment, establishments, indulged, indulges, investigation, investigations, thorough
«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.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Pain,
Passion,
Suffering
| Keywords:
actual, considerable, endured, For any, grieves, happen upon, indulges, suffers, willingly
«Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.»
«Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.»
Author: Dale Carnegie
| About:
Criticism of others
| Keywords:
career, criticism, fatal, futile, indulge, indulges, The Warning, warned
«If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
indulge, indulges, luxury, skepticism
«That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
curried, curries, curry, esteemed, fawn, fawning, fawns, gratifying, indulges, presentiment, statesman
«One ruins the mind if he or she indulges in bad deeds and ends up in misery. »
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